THE TICHBORNE CASE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1270, 27 November 1884, Page 1

THE TICHBORNE CASE.

The release of tin* Tichburne Claimant and the Suiting by Government officials of a number of ammunition cases marked £> Per Osprey,” have been the means of e iciting information bearing on the subject from a large number of persons residing in different, parts of the colony. A cab proprietor in Christchurch, n -rat'd Stephen Brooker, states that he recollects a vessel named the Osprey coming to Manukau'in 1840. A person writes to the Lyttelton Tones stating th A there is now living in Wanganui a man named Edward Ancher, who was sailmaker on board the Osprey at (lie time of the rescue of the Befia’s boat after the loss of that vessel. The writer has been told of the circumstance by Aucher. Two residents in Waima'e have written to the Waimate Times relative to the fact that to their own knowledge, two vessels called the Osprey, traded i - Ansi > a ham waters many years Herald a Mr John Bradshaw, of (); in, ridicules the idea of the Caiimu t h.-mg Sir Roger Tichborne, and with regard m the rescue of a boat’s crew of the ilifated Bella by the Osprey, says that the name “ Osprey” is as old as the hid#, and alnait. as common as that of bmitli or Jones, but neither the Claimant or his legal advisers succeeded in proving that any ship of the name could possibly have been in the same latitude and longitude ns the Bella at the time that vessel struck upon a coral reef or was run into at the dead of night.