A TERRIBLE MEMORIAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4792, 8 September 1883, Page 3

A TERRIBLE MEMORIAL.

*»■ A terrible memorial (nays the London Telegraph) ot the . reoent dreadful loss of the steamship Navarre was flshod up a f.w days ago by a ■mack', whose people found in their trawl the bodie* of a man and woman tied together, with their eyes bandaged. Probably the myste* vioua deep never yielded up a seoret 'more » shookingly suggestive than those corpses. Whether the man and woman wore a niarriect oouple, or sweethearts, or brother and sister, , we know not} but their bodies fastened , together iv death tell a moving story ot devotion, just as their bandaged eyea oonvey a most pathetic pioture of resolution ana anguish. In the wreok of the Oimbria it wiUbe romeinbered that the iwrmors tpoke of ■eeing some of the emigrants at the laeF moment catting their throats to shorten th* final struggle. Most narratives of disaster at •ea oontain passages of this kind, telling how those of a shrinking and timid nature when all was well stood forth most noble and perfeot types of heroes when danger war supreme ; how the swaggerer, the bully, th* tyrant proved an abject our, oasting himself down upon the deck in his terror, alternately ■ prajing Rnd shriek)* " in the aconv of his fear j how some, unable to await tkeappVoao& r of : tho hat moment, destroyed themielrei. while others, with folded arms and oontraoted brows, stood motionless upon the sinkinghull, going to their death hke men lost ia thought, "<