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OBSERVED FROM STEAM ER PROGRESS. New Plymouth. Las! Night. The mystery surrounding the I,stress signals that have been re -.cried in Cook Straits i.- heightened iy the statement of the captain of -he steamer Progress, which arriv'd here to-night from Wellington, ha! a rocket was observed ap- • 'oximately in the same locality at 12.1(1 this morning. The rocket •.as seen disiineilv to llash and 'ail ami it was observed by both he master and mate, who have no h iilit it was a distress rocket from erne craft at sea. When the rocket was seen, the position of the Progress was lati-..-.ae -!H degrees. 22A south, and '•mgilmle 173 degrees, 12A west and point of origin of the rocket was bearing northeast by east from the ifi ogress, which is approximately ;.i-1!» of Wanganui. The Progress cruised in the locality till seven o'clock this morning, but found no trace of a ship and came on to New Plymouth.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2898, 18 June 1925, Page 2
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159S.O.S. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2898, 18 June 1925, Page 2
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