HARBOUR TRAGEDY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 128, 27 November 1923, Page 8

HARBOUR TRAGEDY

PASSENGER DISAPPEARS FROM

MARAMA

When medical inspection was being carried out in the stream on board the Union Company's steamer Marama, which arrived at Wellington at 6.45 o'clock this morning from Sydney, it was discovered that one of the saloon passengers, Ellen Mary Moran, a single woman, 30 years of age, and residing at Bidwell street, Wellington, was ' miss"JS- The ship was immediately searched, but the missing passenger could not be found. Miss Moran was returning to Wellington after a visit to Australia taken for health reasons, accompanied by her two sisters, and was last seen alive about 6.15 o'clock this morning, when the stewardess todk her a cup of tea. She was then fully dressed, and, with her sisters, was standing in one of the alleyways outside her cabin door, watchmg the shore through one of the portholes, as the steamer approached the anchorage. That was the last occasion on which she was seen alive. When the passengers were mustered for medical inspection she could not he found on board. Nobody on the ship appears to have seen her after she left her sisters. It was reported by the Mararoa, which passed up the harbour about an hour after the Marama, that a floating body had been sighted off Kau Point, m the vicinity of Karaka Bay, .about a quarter of a mile from the shore. Miss Moran had been suffering from ill-health, and had taken the trip to Austraha following a nervous breakdown. She was employed in the Internal Affairs Department, Wellington. A search was made by the Government steamer Janie Seddon a6;fa r as the Heads thw morning and afternoon, but no trace of the missing woman was found