A SUBMERGED OBJECT.
By Telegraph—Freas Association. ! CHRISTCHURCH, February 20. On arrival at Lyttelton this morning, Captain N. E. Bower, of the New Zealand Shipping Co. 's steamer Turakina, reported to Captain Marciell, shipping master, that at ajaout 10.20 o'clock last night the steamer passed a ldrge and partly submerged object, with the sea breaking over and around it. The object was about twenty-five miles off the eastern end of Kaikoura Peninsula. It is worthy of note that a similar object was passed by the barquentine Mary Isabel on the 10th inst., a few miles to the southward of Kaikoura Penin&ula, and about ten miles off shore. It is considered by shipping people that the Marine Department should at once send out a steamer to make a search for the submerged obstacle, which is thought by many to be the capsized hull of the missing i Rio Loge.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3120, 22 February 1909, Page 5
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147A SUBMERGED OBJECT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3120, 22 February 1909, Page 5
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