A SILLY HOAX.
By Telegraph.. —Press Association. Auckland, Thursday.. Following is a copy of a message found by the caretaker of Brown's Island in a 'pickle bottle waslicd ashore yesterday:—".May 110, 1909, The Siarque Saint Etna, hound from Noumea to Chili, leaking- X'o food. Off New Zealand. Coast in sight. Captain dead. Send help for God's sake. Signed, 11. Cobev." Auckland, Later. Investigation of tlie messagl.' from the sea appears to conclusively prove that the affair is a hoax. The bottle bears the label of a New Zealand firm, and the cork is almost new.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 165, 6 August 1909, Page 3
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95A SILLY HOAX. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 165, 6 August 1909, Page 3
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