PRAISE OF CAPTAIN ATWOOD.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 119, 15 November 1902, Page 5

PRAISE OF CAPTAIN ATWOOD.

Before concluding his story, Neill said : — "I could not say enough of Captain Atwood's pluck. No words could describe his bravery. He was the last to leave the wreck, 'being washed overboard shortly aftrer I dived off the after-part of the ship. I certainly never witnessed anything like his pluck. After being washed overboard he stood on a couple of pieces of wreckage, one foot on each, and .as he rocked about in the open sea he blew his whistle, the sound of which brought up a boat. In this he must have saved forty or fifty lives. I am» prepared to swear that the casualty could not have oeen prevented. I was close to the captain when tho rocks were sighted not more than thirty yards away, or forty at the outside. All that any man could do he did. Of the conduct of some of the others 1 have something to say, but will not speak until the enquiry." [press assooiation.l (Received November 15, 10.16 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Among those who died on the raft are two Victorian passengers. The one described as Herbert ip Herbert Rogers, who formerly resided with his mother at Collingwood. The other, James Pretty, was a married man with two children. They worked at Messrs. Craig and Williamson's wood-turning factory, and had obtained situations at a factory in Auckland.