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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1716, 18 January 1905, Page 55

The Hon A." Lee Smith, who was a passenger to Wellington by the Moeraki, paid a visit at Lyttelton on Friday to the company’s coal hulk Mensohikoff. He remembered, says the “Lyttelton Times,” that about forty-five years ago his brother-in-laAv, Mr Ryland, of Hull, OAvned a vessel of that name, and that he, aa a lad, had dined on board her, at Hull, in 1859 or 1860. He' was anxious to know if the Lyttelton coal hulk aa’us the same vessel, and on boarding her was soon convinced that she AA*as. He recognised, in particular, the small cabin in A\hich his brother-in-law and himself had partaken of the meal which, as it was the first he had eaten on board a sailing A'ossol, had indelibly imp "os eri itself upon his memory. Mr Ryland, he states, did not long own the y,]. • ’ i-ehi koff, but disposed of her soon af.er lie houirhi her.