The Chief Steward.
A POPULAR OFFICER. LEAVES A WIDOW AND TWO CHILDREN. Gi.suorne, This day. Amw; those in the missing boat* of whose fate there is very little doubt, was the chief steward, Mr Charles Henderson, who had occupied that position ever since the Tasmania started running on the Sydney-New Zealand trade. He leaves a wife and two little sons in Leichardt, a suburb of Sydney, and was a most popular officer. Wherever he was known he was remarkably popular and well liked, and his loss will be deeply deplored by a very large circle of friends. Mr Whitfield, the first engineer, savs he told Henderson to go into his proper boat (the captain's), to which he replied, " All right, old man, there's plenty of time." That time he occupied in seeing to the requirements of the passengers ; and Mr A\ hitfield, who himself was in the captain's boat, believed that just before they left the vessel's side he saw Mr Henderson in the gig ; at any rate he was in one of the small boats. He was 40 years of age.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 387, 31 July 1897, Page 3
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182The Chief Steward. Hastings Standard, Issue 387, 31 July 1897, Page 3
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