LATER PARTICULARS. TWO BODIES FOUND.

Otago Witness, Issue 2251, 22 April 1897, Page 19

LATER PARTICULARS. TWO BODIES FOUND.

PROVISIONS GETTING SCARCE. Hastings, April 19. The Standard reporter briug« word that thr, bodies of Sergeant O'Donovan aud Arthur M'Artney have been found uoar che mouth of the Waitangi Kiver. Coache3 left here for Napier this morning, also for Kaikoura to connect with the south train. The mails lefb for Wellington this morning *t 6 o'clock. Several casos of drowning are reported, bub nothing is definitely known. Another body i unidentified) has been found near the mouth of the Waitangi River. It is supposed to be that of one of the men in tho two missing boats. The beats were carried against the Waitangi bridge by the force of the current and upset. There is little hope of anyone being lefb to tell the tale. A Native named Kiiratiana was washed away for a mile, but sucseeded in leaching a tree, where he remained for 24 hours, and was rescued almott dead. Two hundred loaves have been sent to Clive.' Provisions aro running short all through the district. The scow Rata is on the Petane beach. All hands were landed safely. It will be six weeks before railway traffic is restored at the Waitangi Bridge! The repairs will cost from £20,000 to £30,000.