Insurance. Dunedin, this day. The Union Company bold one third of the insurance on the vessel, the balance ia distributed in home an1 colonial offices. The total insurance is £51,000. The Union Company have arranged that the through passengers for Sydney from the Wairarapa fhould be provided with accommodation here until the departure of the s s. Kingarooma for that port on Thursday evening next. The Wairarapa had on board 40,000 sovereigns transhipped from the Ionic for the Bank of New Zealand.
Narrative of a Passenger. (BY TELEGRAPH-PRESS ASSSOCIATION.)

Extent Af the Damage. So far a3 external appearance goes, the vessel does not seem to have sustained any i-erious damage, but a *7fait below impresses the spectator with a sense of the ex treme injury that hae been caused by the tire. The rooms occupied by the following persons have been completely deptro«'ed : Stanley and Son, Connell and Martin, Fordham, Bullock, Father Ahearn, Kempton, Hill, Elrig, Captain Kowan, Mrs Keene and eon, Mrs Coates, Mrs Mahoney, Mrs Martin. Miss Martin, Mias Kobel, the Mieees Bodman, Miss Grey, Mrs Arundel, and 2 children. Other apartments totally destroyed were the boot room and the adjoining stair leading to the upper deck, linen closet, and Becond steward's room, and bathroom. The only cabin that escaped was one occupied by Mrs Coleman, family, and servant, which immediately adjoins the saloon. The lad'es' cabin was only partly destroyed. The engine-room, stoke hole, spirit room, and the main companion stairs and saloon aleo escaped damage.
