THE MISSING DUCO.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 641, 19 October 1909, Page 8

THE MISSING DUCO.

::.; r/ ; .:;;..i; : _ A' PEOTTIjEBS' SEißOH.''■■' '--.■ ! ; After /an;, upeuccessfnl -.BCarch !or ; the jriisainc steamer ,Duco, ,the Govermneni; training Si? Amokura- returned .to port -bi Wee? 3 liid 4 »tt^rteS, a S^ whole time.' Over; 1400 miles were , coZld ta the Bearch,'and ofthe.26B houre- tbit F thfvc ae S wasuway from-the port, she .was. under S lZ IM . ho Wßv:. Daring- the.;remainder of r ; the combined. Vme,mer:Bte3 ° ~ O r Bt * am and siU ■jOaptain Hooper, reports that about 10, njn nn October. 8 ho sighted.,the' lights of a "Taree steamer ahont 175 milea off tho- Now ZeaSrt coast. -.Obeewtaß-..that, the: stranger was steam inff westward, Captain Hooper: endoavbVed To ascertain: what.,eround..she had- cororce "nd with .that. object .attempted, to get fito com' *™l, tlOll - : i, A .& ,De P eht wns Bh °wn on' the Amokura. and the- .Strange steamer' responded bnt-;held -on- her way, and the trainine sniD was unable' to get any .further respond The , incident explains .the report, furnished bV tho -master of m tho tramp steamer Lodorer,' whloh put into -Wellington on Saturday, October k At tho timo.it was. generally surmised that tie. vessel whioh the Lodorer had sighted-was tho training ship AmoKura, and the arrival of tho latter yesterday cleared !up all doubt on tho