THE MISSING FISHING-BOAT. SUPPOSED FOUNDERING. Thames, September 10.
Captain Bakkk, of the cutter Katie, which arrived to-day from Wairoa with firewood, reports that off Flat Rock, between Maraitai Rock and Brown's Island, he observed a fishing boat of about. 4 tons., with ricker-mast and bead-sails lashed to the masthead, sunk in a considerable depth of water. At low tide the top ol the mast couJd be touched. The boat answers to the description of the boat in which Alfred " Joe " and his mates left tor the Thames in some time ago, and it is thought that she has been caught in a squall and gone to the bottom. The (Juetoms officers and the water police are making enquiries this afternoon.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 298, 12 September 1888, Page 6
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120THE MISSING FISHING-BOAT. SUPPOSED FOUNDERING. Thames, September 10. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 298, 12 September 1888, Page 6
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