WRECKAGE IN COOK STRAIT.
is IT' FROM THE PENGUIN? n ,' his ..'arrival .-in,- Wellington .pa - baturday-morning, Captain Vendoro, of the ■steamer Wairau, reported that at about 2.i5 > a - m ; .on Saturday when about two miles j w«st-half-north of Jackson's Head, a mass E wreckage, about 60ft.: m length' and 10ft. m breadth was passed. The mate , of the vessel was in chargo at tho time/and - did not rouse the captain, and a close inI spection of the wreckage, which was drifting , ™ a noftt-ivesterly direction, was' not made. : . wa3 l ; c P° r , t « d to tho Marino , Department, and the... circumstanoo Is recorded as a warning to mariners.. V .It may bo that this wreckage is a portion of the wrecked steamer Penguin, lost off 9)mnW g H (Tera r lutl) ; in mid-February, K r e , ck W bo 3| £ llte<l again, it s ould be .closely inspected in order if nds- •. sible, to establish its identity. '
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 497, 3 May 1909, Page 7
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157WRECKAGE IN COOK STRAIT. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 497, 3 May 1909, Page 7
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