THE WRECK.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 815, 27 February 1909, Page 1

THE WRECK.

PENQUIN INQUEST ADJOURNED. Sub-Inspector Phair stated at the inquest in Wellington yesterday that lie had intended to call two other passengers w-ho had been saved, but they were out of town. The foreman said no evidence had been calfled as to the finding of the bodies. Dr. McArthur: I can give you evidence as to that. 1 viewed the bodies. The foreman said t-lic jury would like to put a tew questions to the police.. There was a question as to the care of the bodies, and wliy thuv had been left on the beach for 2i hours. Dr. M'Arthur : With all duo deference to yon, Mr Foreman, you are enlarging your enquiry beyond its scope. Your duties are to find as to , the cause of death. J After some discussion it was dcci led to get the evidence of Mr Ri^xsMiller, one of the survivors of tlre wreck, who, it is stated got ash -re from a boat. The inquest was accordingly adjourned until 10.30 a.m. on Monday. Dr. M'Arthur, in rcpHy to a question by Mr Levi, who appeared for the Union Company, said it was i.i'.t intended to deliver" the decision of the Nautical Court until the jury iisu! returned its verdict. i

[PRU I'KESS ASSOCIATION."! Wellington, February 2(i. One of the bodies recovered on Tuesday from the wreck of the Penguin has been identified as that -if Mr Charles Alexander, chief of the vessel. The body of James Collim. of Uharleston,* which was recovered on Tuesday. v.iM be- taken to the; Arr.hura, to-inonou to be conveyed m Westport. Tin* funeral and buna! will take pilaco at Charleston. Yesterday afternoon another body was found on the- beach near tr-'. Oterangi station. It was that cl the seaman Henderson, and.wul on a l"nion Company jersey. The 0 n.v was brought to town to-ilay by the Union Company's tug Tora-wliiU, which made a special trip to the scene of the 'wreck at 5 o'clock this morning. Another body, fully clothed and wearing a pair of tennis shoes, was found on the rocks at the mouth of the Karori stream at dusk this evoning. There was a lifebelt round t!«o. body. it was t-uo <lark to identity tlie remains.