Amongst recent arrivals in Wellington from Australia was .Captain M. NPlante, who has been appointed to the command of a vessel in Auckland. Captain Plante was formerly an officer in the New Zealand Shipping Company's service. During the war between Russia and Japan ho was in chaise of a steamer with cargo for Port Arthur. He succeeded in getting past the Japanese warships, but before she could make the harbour hi 6 vessel struck a mine laid by the Russians, and foundered alongside the forte, 'fhe captain and the other survivors were sent to St. Petersburg by the Siberian railway. Among his other certificates, Captain Plante holds one from the Government of Chili as a ■master pilot for the Straits of Magellan.
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15873, 12 April 1917, Page 8
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