THE TASMANIA WRECK
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
Wellington, this day. The Marine Department has received the following telegram from Captain Neale, of the Hinemoa, in reference to the search for the uncharted rock on which it is supposed the Tasmania struck.-—" Have taken a line of soundings from the wreck to one mile oft'the Cape, a distance of three miles and a-half ; from thence to Ormond's station from half a mile to one mile off shore ; from thence to wreck again, cutting several zigzag lines between these to shore ; then taking two circles round the wreck of half a mile and one mile; then a line due east of wreck for two miles and three-quarters with heavy easterly roll, on which the water would have been! broken in three fathoms." The Hinemoa is to make another search for the rock.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 207, 6 September 1897, Page 4
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