MESSAGE IN BOTTLE.
LONG DRIFT AT SEA. WASHED UP AT ADDRESS. By a remarkable chance a bottle thrown overboard about 500 miles at sea has drifted ashore within a mile of the address on the letter which it contained (says an exchange). On May G this year Mr. James Pollock, of Wellington, who was a passenger on the steamer Moeraki, from Wellington to Melbourne, threw overboard a bottle in latitude 40 degrees 9 minutes south, longitude 165 degrees 48 minutes east. The bottle contained a message addressed to Mr. Pollock’s niece, Mrs. J. Clague, of Kaupokonui, three miles from Manaia. Strange to say, the bottle has been picked, up on Kaupokonui Beach, and handed, to the postmaster at Manaia. Naturally, Mr. Pollock did not anticipate at the time that his message would find its way to a spot within a mile of the residence of his niece, but such has been the remarkable fact.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3713, 5 November 1927, Page 4
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154MESSAGE IN BOTTLE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3713, 5 November 1927, Page 4
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