A MESSAGE FROM THE SEA.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 993, 7 December 1910, Page 4

A MESSAGE FROM THE SEA.

FOUND ON PTJKEKUA'BEACH. Mr. Thomas St. Simpson, of Pnkerua, writes to The Dominion: "The following incident may interest your readers:— On December i I picked up a sealed dark-coloured bottle on the Pukerua beach. Following my usual practice, I broke it, and was surprised to see a letter, with 'A Message to the Tinder' written on it. I eagerly opened it, thinking perhaps that it might throw some light on the. lost Waratah, but not so. It' was dropped at sen between Latitude 14.28 and Longitude 83.U, for scientific purposes—to trace the ocean currents. I shall have pleasure in sending it on to London as requested. Now, in looking up the latitude and longitude, we find it was dropped on the' s.s: Medic's course, just about haliVway between Cope Town and Hobart. So it has floated over 3000 miles since the '15th February, 190!),' but it must have drifted hither and thither much more than this. It puzales me to know why it did not follow the north-east current, and thence pass along the west coast of Australia. It must have come in here with the last spring tide, over a month ago."