OFFICIAL CABLES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13395, 1 June 1914, Page 4

OFFICIAL CABLES.

(Per Press Association.) BitTNfiblN, kst jiight. The Pi-imV ifinistep hias spi'ji the. following telegram, to.tKfe Prime Minister of Canada :— "Qn.. l b/?hajf of.^he^ Goyernmenti. and.people of r Xe\v Z^ajlaiicl, I desire to express, sincere sympathy with our sisttn- Dominion m the ' appalling loss of life! which : .hae taken place m. the foundering. , v of the .Empress of Ireland, and our heartfelt condolence with the relatives, mid friends of those who have periShfe'd.'' . . , Mr Massey also cabled • to, the Prime Minister or .Canada, Asking, for .the names, of Ne^'Zealandevs oh the pa^ssfengec list 1 of .the. Empr'es^ of 'Ireland, stating whether saved ot lost, m. order "that friends^ and ablatives may. liaye inforniation as quiiclcly as possible. Regarding those who may liave< fieen passengers. In reply, to the'; first pai-fc of his cable, Mi' 2k£assey ..on Saturday . received the following ' reply, seiit from Ottawa at 12.45 p.m. :— "Prime Minister, Dunedin.—On behalf of. tlie Government* and peoplo of Csa«ada 1, send deep and sincere appreciation of your message and our warmest sympathy for those m your Dominion, who have been bereaved by the Id'ss.of relations and friends m this appalling disaster .—Signed, Borden." In rfepiy to the other message the following was despatched at 1.35 p.m.: — Xew Zealand passengers on the Empress of irelahd were — ' Colonel Blooriifield. •VFi-s Bloomfield and Miss, Hi Bloomfiejd, of, Aaickland. ;. ; Mas F. W. Price and Miss Townsend (addresses iiot, KnownJ. -. Miss Townsend saved; but the Bloomfield, family and Mrs Price were lost. (Signed) Borden. SALVATION ARMY. WELMNGTON,; last night., v The .National headquarters of the Salvation 'Arhry, Wellington, have received a cablegram - from 1 the IhterhatiojVal Headquarters, London, stating that over,10() oifficers and soldiers had been lost : oil the Empress of Ireland. The ojßßcers 1 who perislied include :.-^ Cbmmftssioner arid • Mrs' Rees (cbrii-, maaldei- m Canada). Coldnel and Mrs Maidment (Canadian Chief Secretary). . ' !

Brigadier )Scott Potter. - Major and Mrs Findlay. Major arid Mrs Creighton. - , Wcs Major JSimcol, and ' Tliirty other officers;, aAd also the Canadiaii staff band -and Brigadier and >Jrs Hunter, who were on furlough from India m Caiiada. / Beferences were made to the disaster m all the churches to-day. |\