SAFETY OF A SUPPOSED PASSENGER.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13448, 2 June 1914, Page 5

SAFETY OF A SUPPOSED PASSENGER.

METHODIST CONDOLENCE

Christchurch, June 1

Fears for the safety of a well-known New Zealander, Mr. Leslie Lilly, who it was thought was a passenger by the Empress of Ireland, were set at rest yesterday by receipt of a cable message sent by him from Montreal. His brother," Mr Arthur Lilly, late organist at St. Luke's' Church. Christchurch, states that Mr. Leslie Lilly was travelling representative of Messrs. Smith and Lister, silk merchants, of London, in Eastern Canada and the United States. In the last letter receiyed_ from him by his brother, he stated his intention of leaving on his return last week

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to Liverpool in the ill-fated ship, but the cable message stated that he was prevented by business arrangements from joining the steamer last Friday as he had intended;/ i c. *

. At the Christchurch Methodist Min-r isters' Association meeting this morning, twenty-three members being present, the following resolution was carried:—"That this meeting of the Christehurch Methodist - Ministers' Association expresses its deep regret at the loss of life involved in the wreck of the s.s. Empress of Ireland in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and hereby commends to God's sustaining grace all those to whom this wreck has brought sore bereavement."

At the same meeting a further resolution was also carried: "That this meeting has heard with great sorrow of the terrible loss of life involved in the wreck of the s.s. Empress of Ireland on the St. Lawrence, including a mimber of Canadian Salvationists. This meeting expresses its deep sympathy with the local members of the Salvation Army in the loss of their comrades, and prays that their bereavement may be sanctified by the-consola-tion of the Holy Spirit and a wider extension of the Kingdom of Christ,"