Romance of the Sea .
ca:<. r .■— — rr-— • - -, • • ThfrEtiropjean Mail gives the foil owing romance of the; sea :— rThe Hon. Francis &ebrge Hayjtfce son of Vhe Earl of (Kiniibiil, was a roan of somewhat varied experience of ;life. He/ servjed^ before the mast for tii ree years m Hhe: naT^iand/'attho'time Of his death j ■was m ..the- .sei vice of the, Britfah India* Sjfeain Navigation Company. One, at ieastj o"f his adverituresjis jrprffa recprding. . OnSj of the company's steamers \yas a few. miles pff Mr Hay was m command [of ' about 4 ; aim. ,' when he fancied he noticed a boat drift by and that he heard a faint .scream. He at - o^fce stopped the ve»sel, lowered \& h lx)ati v and proceed to search for the castaway. He was rewarded by discovering the dead body of a lady and reliving child tied together m a bokt which "was half fui, of water. The child he adopted, and she is, now m the charge of his family. Odd|y enough, he was never able to discover . her birth or parentage, or even the name of the vessel on which she had i been a passenger. This sounds like it chapter from a sensational roraahefe; bat it is true, notwithstanding.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 138, 21 November 1884, Page 3
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