WRECK OF THE ZILLAH.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXII, Issue 6348, 22 June 1889, Page 2

WRECK OF THE ZILLAH.

HKCOVKUY OF THK BODIES. (By Tki.'j-oiiai'li—i'ii"?s Akooiati:'".) AucK'iiAXD, last night. [NFMOIATIOX lia ; . biiuii jeeeived that settle;* ■il Great Barrier Island have discovered ir.d buried the bodies of the master iicd mate of '.ho iiifatcd keich Ziilati, which v.'i\s wrecks: ••■:: (be locks then: on Sunday ti)C 2i'.cl iiV 'JiiU;-. it iipptars til i ; hiil Sunday -on} c-f t-.-e Kottiors were v,;i!iii;;g 'lion;; tlie i;:;au:i, '.vhen they ihuii,'-;in .it would !)..• \v. 'I to i'narctj tho iMioro ui seu if any bjiii«3 li.if! bo-u «-isl ii|:, Their labor resulted in finiiiii;,' the body o[ t'oo mate of the kotch John inchie. Ncsi day a farther IwAi won iiisiituted, when tiio bn]y .'•£ John ZiiiiK'i, master of the vessel was discovered, A few uf tho nettlors gii'.horcd together iind -."It:.-; u hirgogfuve on tho beach in which both bodies were placed temporarily. A hoapuf stones was raised 10 mar!', '.ho spot in the event of tho bodies being exhumed ou u future occasion. A letter received from Mr R, J. F. Duko, a fanner at Groat Barrier, gives fuller particulars, lie stutoa that in company with two others he wont to look for the wreck, when the found lim first body, which had evidently been on shore socio days. He told Mr Alcock, aud next day returned (o bury tho body, when tho second one was discovered to have -been washed up olosa to the spot. They accordingly buriod the bodies, Mr Jenkins schoolmaster, reading the service, Both bodies wero almost nuked, and tho heads hod been knocked about. Around the waiat of one was a belt, while a portion of the leg of a pair of tronsors wat on the other body.