THE LOSS OF THE TARARUA.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2239, 2 May 1881, Page 2

THE LOSS OF THE TARARUA.

SECOND EDITION.

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS. [PBB P6BSS ASBOOIAriON.] INYEROAR&ILL, May 2. BODY IDENTIFIED. A male body, found on the beach, hag been identified by Mr Thomson ua that of T. Bailey, a waiter in the Criterion Hotel, Dunedin. INQUEST. Mr McOullooh, 8.M., Coroner, proceeded ■with the search party last night to Toi Tois. i Mr Fairclough, Wesleyan Minister, of Invercargill, nho went, with a view to the identification of the Wesleyan Conference delegated. ! His wife is related to Captain G-arrard. The inquest on the wreck of the Tararua i commences at Wyndham to-day. DTTNEDIN, May 2. CLERICAL SYMPATHISERS. In all the city pulpits, yesterday, special referenoe was made to the Tararua disaster. . The demand for " extras " on Sunday was | enormous. ■ SEVEN MAIL BAGS RECOVERED. , The Hawea picked up seven bags of mails • from the wreck. One bag was that from ' Auckland to Sydney; one from Wellington | to Sydney, with enolosed mail from Nelson ; one bag from Wellington to Brisbane ; one bag from Wellinglon to Hobart; one bag from Christchurch to Melbourne, with enclosed mails from Hokitika and Greymouth ; one bag from Dunedin to Sydney, with enclosed mails for New Caledonia; one bap from Dunedin to Hobart, with enclosed mails from Christchurch. The bags were opened at Port Chalmers, and the contents dried. About 1000 letters it will bo possible to have delivered, but the newspapers are reduced to pulp. The Te Anau, which leaves this afternoon, will take on the Brisbane and Orient mails. MELBOURNE, May 2. UNDER THE VERANDAH. The news of the disaster to the Tararu" has caused a great and painful sensation here. N.Z. MAILS PER TARARUA. As regards the Australian portion of the Tararua's mails, no authentic information is to hand as to whether the letters intended for her went through to the Bluff overland, or were placed on board at Port Chalmers, but no apprehension need be felt as to the English mail, that having been sent by another channel. AIDS TO IDENTIFICATION. Joseph Wallace, one of the lost passengers by the Tararua, who joined at Lyttleton, intended going to London, and thence to (Ttab. He is about 21 years of age, and a few days ago Bold a paroel of land prior to his departure from New Zealand. Mr William Hill, hie wife and child, who were passengers by the Tararua, lived on the New Brighton road, near Christchurch, where Mr Hill had leased fifty acres of land from Mr Courier. Mr Hill had disposed of the lease, but intended to return with his family to New Zealand after visiting the old ojuntry. Mrs Hill was at first reported as having been saved, but subsequent information proved that the rumor was without foundation, and that both she and her ohild have been lost. Their neighbours speak in high terms of the Hills' kind demeanour and industrious habits. Our Kaiapoi correspondent telegraphs as follows :— *' Mr Thos. Jones was single. He was going Home to his aged mother at Ganton, nine miles from Oxford, England. He sold a small property in Kaiapoi before leaving, and promised to send at least £SO Home by draft. He was jehorr, with fair hair, and usually wore earrings. He was last in the employ of Mr Boss, Kaiapoi Island. Mr Sheareby, of Kaiapoi, is Jones's nearest friend in Kaiapoi, Mr Wm. White was also single. He was of medium height, fair huir. His father is a storekeeper in Soarborough, Yorkshire, White was last employed at Mr B. Coup's, and at Mr Baker's threshing machine, Kaiapoi Island. His nearest relation is Mr Bransby White, his nncle, who reades at Swannanoa. Mr Jas. Ashworth was a well-known carrier between Christchurch and Saltwater Creek. He was on his way to Englund for the benefit of his health, and loaves a widow and a grown up sen and daughter. Ho waß a cousia of Mr John Aehworth, of Rochdale. Mr John Saoor.e, unmarried, was from Ringiora. He was a well-known farmer, who huß for many y«ara proposed paying a visit to his native place iu Cumber] ma. Ho was a close f.iond of Mr Sialiiur, who died suddenly at Aehburton. Scoone was fiiir, and hud lost one or two fingers of! ouo hand. Jlij marrifld brother, Wm. Bsoore, resides in tbo aistrict. Photographs of those paesangers havo beßn sent to Inspector Buckley, which may assist in the ident'.ficiticn of the bodies it washed aiLorj."