MESSAGE FROM THE SEA.
A SAD MISSIVE,
(Per .►'less Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. With reference to the drowning of the cook of the transport Norfolk, reported by cable to-day, a message announcing the fact was found on Wednesday last in a bottle picked up, oh Island Bay beach by a girl named An.trobus. It was written on a piece of an envelope, and ran: Sunday, April 20th.—Cook jumped overboard.—Sergt. Booth, Trooper Edgecombe ; troopship Norfolk- The find was reported to the newspapers, but in view of the frequency of hoaxes in messages of the kind it was decided, rather than cause possible needless anxiety to re-> latives, to withhold publication until the statement should be confirmed.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 400, 26 April 1902, Page 3
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