NO MORE BODIES RECOVERED.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12468, 18 February 1909, Page 2

NO MORE BODIES RECOVERED.

The Union" S. S. Company's tug Terawhiti returned this afternoon from- the scene. of the wreck of the Penguin, bi-inging a quantity of the wreckage, including two rafts, which nearly all the survivors owe ■ their lives, and one of the Penguin's lifeboats. Two boats had been secured, but salvage operations were cut short •' by a southerly wind springing up suddenly, and the Terawhiti was .^therefore forced to steam away withouL stopping to take one of the lifeboats on board. It was towed behind, and when two -miles had been covered it , broke adrift, and . will probably go - ashore. A calm sea during the early , : part of the day enabled a. close. search ; to be made of the outlying rocks, an • oil launch" being used for this purpose, r but no bodies were recovered; Ar- . rangements have been made with the Justice Department to" provide a patrol consisting of a sergeant and four constables at the scene of the disaster for ten or twelve days, until ali chances of further bodies coming ashore have disappeared. The tug Terawhiti will be kept in readiness, and if any of the bodies are recovered an undertaker with coffins, will be immediately despatched to the beach.. .