NEW ZEALAND'S PART.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13745, 7 April 1915, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND'S PART.

LOSS OF THE OLD HURUNUI

(Special to "The Colonist.")

Christchurchi April 6. In 11 m minds oi many people in New Zfalanu a peculiarly regretful -.interest) will nxv.ivh to the Press cable message received to-day Telling-of the torpedoing in tho Enyli«h Channel off the Isle ofVn-ht of tho Ruseian barque Herni.es. for thU is-no other than the stout old Uumnui. in her day a noted pasisen!" v ship, in which numbers of settlers were ' brought to New Zealand jn the 'ai-or -Vovenvies and early 'eighties. She viijoji'd tho distinction of being the first vessel i>o be docked in the Lyttelton ilrj dock, in her late ;veafs in tho New Zealand trade she was commanded by a joung Christchureh man, Captain Plnnket, son of a well-known Christchurch pressman