MESSAGE OF SYMPATHY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 7874, 8 January 1904, Page 2

MESSAGE OF SYMPATHY .

; „. • HOKITIKA, January 7. The Premier. has sent; to Admiral Fail' shawe, through' his Excellency the Govarnor, a cable expressive of the grief of the Government and "jwoplo of New ?ei' land at' the great sacrifice of life attending the disaster, which overtook the Wallah. '. '* i -* ' ' . . The AVallaroo is 1* third-class cruiser of eight guns, 2575 tons, built m 1889. She is a 19-knot vessel, with engines of 40D0 h.p. Her, commander is Captain Francis ifCj^M. Noel. •