A SILLY HOAX.
Per Press Association. Auckland, December 4. Chambors, who was the purser of tlie ill-fated Elingamite, after investigation of the message found in J a bottle at Kaihu Creek,-' purporting to have been signed by Eraser, ongiI neer, and stating that the Eliugamite had been wrecked, that the second mate was mad, etc., states that it is not genuine and that tho writing does not resemble Eraser's. The third mate was in charge of the Ijoafc Eraser was in, not the second mate's boat, and the bottle in which jthe message was found \\-&s of a brand not kept in the Eliugamite's stores..
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 9018, 4 December 1907, Page 2
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105A SILLY HOAX. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 9018, 4 December 1907, Page 2
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