The Scoular Family - died 28/10/1894. "drowned in the wreck"

At a special committee meeting of the Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Society, held on Saturday forenoon, the President (Mr P. Pattillo) referred to the Wairarapa disaster, and proposed the following motion, which was recorded on the minutes: — "That this meeting deplore the awful disaster which has befallen the community in the wreck of the s.s. Wairarapa on Great Barrier Island on Sunday night, by which so many valuable lives have been sacrificed. The meeting desire to express their sincere sympathy, through the press, with all those who are now mourning for relatives and friends, and especially with the family of the late William Scoular, our esteemed townsman and a prominent member of this society. They would further extend their sympathy to the Union Steam Ship Company, the unfortunate owners of the ship."  -Otago Witness, 8/11/1894.

Deaths.

Scoular. — On Sunday, the 28th October, 1894, at Great Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf, by the wreck of the s.s. Wairarapa, William Scoular, of this City, merchant (aged 64); also his wife, Fanny Mary (aged 46), and their two daughters Nellie (aged 19) and Fanny (aged 17 years).   -Evening Star, 12/11/1894.

FUNERAL NOTICE.

THE Friends of the late Mr William Scoular are respectfully invited to attend his Funeral and the Funeral of his late Wife, also the Funerals of his late daughters Nellie and Fanny, which will leave the wharf, corner of Rattray street, for the Southern Cemetery, TOMORROW (Sunday), the 25th inst., at 3.30 p.m. 

HUGH GOURLEY, Undertaker, Clarke and Maclaggan streets.  -Evening Star, 24/11/1894.

Very large crowds had gathered on the wharves this afternoon when the Te Anau with the bodies of Mr and Mrs William Scoular, and Misses Nellie and Fannie, their daughters, all drowned in the wreck of the Wairarapa, arrived. The vessels at the wharves had their flags at half-mast, and as the Te Anau steamed slowly in with her flags at half-mast, and was berthed at the Cross Wharf without an order being heard. The scene was an impressive one. It was 4.30 before the bodies were got ashore and placed in the four hearses awaiting. Then a start was made for the Southern Cemetery, the cortege being very large, while the course of the route was lined with crowds.  -Ashburton Guardian, 26/11/1894.

Southern Cemetery, Dunedin.