AN UNKNOWN VESSEL
REPORTED ASHORE
(Per Press Association.)
GISBORNE, Aug. 23. S. McCrae and E. Williams, the two men who reported the supposed wtcck, telephoned this afternoon expressing a positive opinion that the object sighted was not a mirage hut a vessel in distress. It was also seen by Graham, manager of the Rototalii Station and his soil through binoculars. The vessel appeared about five miles out and the Arahura on her way to Auckland passed between the derelict and the shore. The weather then was misty, and the wreck could not ho discerned from the shoie, but the haze afterwards lifted and the vessel could he seen quite distinctly, lying ill the trough of a sea, very low iii the water. McCrae watched it for two hours and Graham and his dusk. McCrae said he was convinced it was a steamer, not a sailer, and was a lar«'e vessel of the mutton boat type. AUCKLAND, Aug. *23. The Monowai lias arrived. She kept a sharp look-out hut saw no sign of wreckage.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1920, Page 3
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