WRECKAGE FOUND AT WHANGAREI HEADS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12698, 29 October 1904, Page 5

WRECKAGE FOUND AT WHANGAREI HEADS.

THE MISSING BOAT.

Inspector Cotxen received additional particulars yesterday from Sergeant Drake, of WhangJirei, in reference to the missing '■"•boat, which left Whananaki for Mimiwha•ngata on Tuesday, with several persons on board, and which has not yet arrived. The telegram indicates that the gravest fears are manifested in th© district that 'the passengers have all been, drowned. la addition to Mr. Lee and Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner being on board, as stated yesterday, Inspector Cullen was informed that there were two of the Gardiners' children, t. and another adult person, on the boat. Wreckage has been found at Whangarei Heads, and at Tahiruni Point, and also soine blankets, fowls, saddle-cloth, bridle. , -wearing apparel, and five pairs of polished bullock horns.

A later telegram showed that Mr. John, Blake, a settler at Tama Bay, which is (south of Whananaki, where the boat put out from, going north, stated that a small yacht was wrecked in the ocean near Patau*. The boat, on coming ashore, contained a telegram, 'some photographs,'and some women's clothes.

• Mounted-Constable McDonnell left Whajigarei at half-past one p.m. for the scene of the supposed wreck, as' indicated by Mr. Blake, and the steam launch Eileen was to call at Parua Bay.