ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1894, 14 July 1863, Page 3

ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.

The question of the causes of the accident is one upon which it is delicate to touch in anticipation of the inquest and other enquiries which will probably follow. It may be mentioned, however, that the Favorite had the usual masthead, and port and starboard lights. She had not a boat ou board, nor, as far as we are aware, any life-belt. The Pride of the Yarra had one light at the mast-head, that limp, however, having three slides, representing the usual colors for mast-head light, port and starboard. The rule of the road is, to allow a vessel to pass on the port, or left hand side, and it was while this was being attempted by the Pride of the Yarra that the accident occurred. Mr Ross, of Ross and Glendining, was one of the passengers. He soon got to the bow of the Favorite. But while he hung there he was, so to speak, " walked over" by a number of others, and his clothes — even his trousers — were torn into strips. Mr Ross bad arrived as a cabin passenger by the William Miskin. All his fellow-passengers in the cabin, were on board of the Pride, and all are saved: Their names, as supplied by the agents, are Messrs Ross, M'Crae, Miller, Kennedy, Gleadow, Bartley, Lilley, and Learey. Mr Gleadow had a rib — probably two — broken, and he sustained some injury tooneof his wrists. Most, if not all, the steerage passengers by the William Miskin, were on board the Pride, Messrs Thompson and Peters are certainly saved. Of the others, nothing can b« stated with certainty, at present. Amongst the most afflicting stories that will yet have to be told connected with the loss o this little pleasure steamer, there is one which must stand pre-eminent. The Rev.- T. Campbell, his wife, and their three children, came from London by the Matoaka. He was to have become the head master of our High School. They were all more than elated by the rapid and pleasant passage out. Mr and Mrs Campbell came up to town on Saturday morning, went to Park house, and made arrangements for a temporary sojourn there. They returned to the Port by the afternoon boat; and out of the Matoaka they obtained not only their luggoge but their three fine children ; and they were all on board the Pride of the Yarra. We cannot, despite evidence to the contrary, forego the hope that some of the family party may yet live; but the statement is that they were all in the cabin, and that all were drowned. Drowned ! after their long voyage ; after having trod on the laud of their choice, and with their little ones clinging around them. One man, we are told, found a woman clinging tightly to him. He was at first much impeded in his efforts to swim, but his words gave her confidence, and he left her for a moment, holding by a piece of wood which he had struck. " Can you support yourself by that for a time," he asked, " while I see how best to help you?" She, poor soul, replied, "Oh! yes, I can, my dear l ." Who was she? She thought sUe spoke to her husband. But she was gone — sucked down to the slimy icud — when he who would have saved her returned after a few strokes, to learn how better he could aid her.