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The Pollard Opera Company were to have travelled by the Penguin but a change of route saved them. The body of Mrs Evans, one of the victims of the Penguin disaster, was brought to Nelson by/the Mapourika yesterday, and conveyed to Wekefield for interment. The deceased was the wife of Mr F. P. Evans, of Kaponga, and a daughter of the late Mr ft. King, of Wakefield, who died recently. She was returning to her yesterday, and conveyed to Wakeiiold her husband had the sad duty of identifying her body on the beach at Terawhiti. Mrs Evans was a niece of Mr John Fiven, of Tory street. . Last night, at the usual fortnightly meeting of- the Loyal Nelson Lodge, MvU. 1.0i0.F., a. motion was unanimously carried in silence, the mem T bers: standing, "That the Secretary write to the .District Chief Banger- of the Foresters, tendering the condolences of the Loage on the unfortunate loss sustained by ths sister Order by the deaths of Bros Coumbe and Collins, who lost their lives in the wreck of the Penguin." ' A Murchison correspondent writes: "The news of the loss of the Penguin reached Murchison pn Saturday afternoon, and keen anxiety prevailed throughout the township and district. No particulars were available until the telegram despatched by "The Colonist" reached the township about noon on Monday. Directly on its receipt prompt and effective steps were taken to spread the sad tidings around." Much has been written about "Pelorus Jack," and on some points writers are at variance, but on. one there is no room for any doubt, and that wa'Sj ''He knew the Penguin." For from the day ti~.j an. attempt was made upon his life from her deck he gave that steamer a wide berth. Lfc was perfectly futile for passengers to ask her: ; skipper, for information ■so constantly inquired of all in. command of steamers pursuing the French Pass route of the Sounds trip, '.'When shall: we ; see Pelorus Jack?" So far as, the Penguin was concerned his Majesty might be said to be nbh-ex-astent, only a mythical tale of the sea, another of the sea serpeiit fables. Year after ye%,r went by and under no circumstances would "Pelorus. Jack" emerge from the silent deep, when the Penguin was ploughing her furrows therein. Men ceased to wonder at Jack's non appearance under the circumstances, but was it to be a lifelong grudge to be remembered against this perfectly innocent craft ? The solution of the problem Very narrowly escaped never being solved, for only some six weeks ago, and thus a simlar period previous to the Penguin's plunge into its deep grave off the Terawhiti coast line, Pelorus Jack presumably concluded it was time to forgive and forget, and once again came out to meet the Penguin.