A MYSTERY DF THE SEA.
A SUBMERGED OBJECT'
(Per Press Association.)
' CHRISTCHURCH, last night. On Saturday Captain N. ■E. !Ek>wer, of the New Zealand Shipping Company's Turakina, Xfeported to ■-..■Captain MarcieL' .'-.hipping master at Lyttelton, that at? about 10.30" o'clock on Friday night the steamer passed^ a large and partly sub. merged 1 • object, with the sea breaking over and around it. The object was about 25 miles off . the _ eastern end of Kaikoura Peninsula, Which was bearing south 56deg. W. correct ihagnetic. Mas-. ters of Vessels)' bburict m tliai'.- directiori are warned of the object, which constitutes a danger to navigation. Captain !Marciel, immediately on receipt pf thtf information, wired, to the Secretary -foil Marine, , kdiyising him of the report. It is worthy of note thatVa s'itnilar 'object was passed by the barquentine Mary Isabel on the 10th inst., a few milel to the southward of Kaikoura Peninsula: Tt,was then about ten miles off the; shored It is conJsidered by shipping people that the Mnriri© Department '.."should"' at ondf send out a steamer -to make a- search fo*; the submerged qbstafcle, which is thought by manj' to be the capsizedi' hall of > tfiie missing Rio Lo^e."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11515, 22 February 1909, Page 5
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