RELIC FROM THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1915, Page 5

RELIC FROM THE SEA.

LaSS OF KAIRAKI RECALLED. By Telegraph.—Press Association# Wellington, Last Night. An interesting discovery, and one, apparently, which confirms the finding of tho Court ot Inquiry into the low of the steamer Kairaki, was made by a young man whilst walking along the sea shore between Lyall Bay and Island Bay yesterday. Noticing a currv powder <1 Kittle, curiosity led him to open it, with the result that he found inside a small piece of paper, upon which was a In)nt pencil message. This has been carefully examined, and is believed to be, (|iiite genuine. Willi difficulty, the message was found to be as follows: — '■ S.S, * Kairaki in a sinking condition. Sprung a leak ofV Oreymouth, Big sea running. Roth boats smashed and drowned. I don't think she will " Hero the message ends, having, probably, been abruptly finished. The paper is somewhat torn, and appears to have been at sea for some considerable time. The Kairaki left Wellington on September 21, for Grey mouth, and was last seen by Captain Cowan, of the Pctone, at about S.:KI -ji.m. on September 23, off C.ipe I'ouiwind. Wreckage was washed aslio'e on the following days, and subsequently the Kairaki wreck was about throe miles ofT Point Elizabeth, in seventy-two feet of water.