THAT SEABORNE MESSAGE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1593, 9 November 1912, Page 4

THAT SEABORNE MESSAGE.

... a ■ ■ . . THE ORIGINAL AEEIVES, The Marino Department has received the original message purporting to have • corns from the dredgfe, Manchester, which ww picked up in a.bottle washed ashore oil To Kppiiru beach, near Kaipara, on Sunday last, The fording' of the message is exactly: as was stated in a previous issue,,'aid '»?■ written on what appears to lie i> leaf/taken from an ordinary writing tablet'.' ThVblua lines, common on writing . paper* were visible on close examination. It' appeared as if the sheet of paper .had' be^n I torn Ih "> half, crosswise, and then doubled.' over; This made it appear is-If it had been taken from a nQte-book, The gumined *dge of the note.paper,. where it .had. been attached .to tho writing pad, was distinctly visible. Tho message was written in, ''copying" lead, pencil, and it appeared to have been, executed in haste. Tho : writor had formed his letters delibora'tetyj but liad-nit'kept to the lines on the. piper when, wiitingiHe had also only written on what could ■ be termed ono page of tho four, which'-the, ■ sheet of noteptiper. had., been, made .into'i. '■«, Tho paper is disooloiired-to a certain, extent, pad this gives it the 'appearSnoe of ■ having been bottled Some time.' The: Dies* : Bag© as it appears at present Fas /much ; 'crumpled, but the paper appeared to havo been neatly folded at some' time; or other, Tho signature "tambert" has .the appearance of having ..been written by eomeo'c.o . whose handwriting' was. well formed. The paper is now being fonyarded to tjho lyttellion Harbour Board in order .. that the' signature and.writing may .be. ■compared with G. '.Lamboftfe signature, which is ip possession of the board:'