THE SEARCH FOR CAFFREY AND PENN.

Kumara Times, Issue 3107, 18 October 1886, Page 3

THE SEARCH FOR CAFFREY AND PENN.

The following further particulars with regard to the search for Caffrey and Penn appear in Sydney papers brought by the Mariposa. Port Macquarie, October 4. The police continued their search on Sunday for the occupants of the cutter Sovereign of the Seas, portions of which were pickep up on the beach a few days ago. They ascertained that about three weeks ago a cutter topsail-reefed was observed passing the Nobbs, about a mile south of the port with two men on her. She was going north, close to the beach, and apparently without any other occupants, as the sails were flying loosely. At about the same time another individual saw a small boat north of Crescent Heads at one time under sail and again being rowed. The police cannot find any tidings of the boat. On Saturday they searched the rocks in the vicinity of the wreck, where the beach is strewn with wreckage, kerosene, flour, and other stores, and they also found a board from the stern bearing the name “ Auckland,” about one hundred yards inland from the wreck. Underneath the corner of a large rock they unearthed eight bags of flour, fourteen 50ft). hags of white sugar, ten of rice, matches, and salt, two bags potatoes, a paint pot and brushes, and the tackling and sails of the cutter. These were all covered over with other larger bags, and then with 2ft of sand. It took the police half-a-day to unearth the plant. It was discovered through the corner of the sail being left uncovered. Kempsey, October 6. This is the second murderer that Constable May has arrested. In August of last year he detected the murderer of a man named Matterson at Coff Harbour, and arrested the murderer of a man, Matthew Feste, who was found guilty and executed at Grafton last December.