DRIFTING BOAT SIGHTED.
(Received 10.17 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. The steamer Thistleroy, from the Tyne, reports that during a heavy gale on January 23, in latitude 39 south, longitude 21 east, she passed an overturned boat, painted white, and covered with marine growth. There was no sign of wreckage in the vicinity. The boat may have come from the Waratah. whose boats were painted white. The spot where it was sighted lies almost due south of Cape Agulhas, near where the Waratah was last seen, but many miles southward of her course. FLOODS ON THE BORDER. (Received 10.25 a.m.) ADELAIDE, this day. Heavy floods are reported from the Terowie district. Washaways on the railway practically isolate Broken Hill. DARING- BAKE ROBBERY. (Received 10.25 a.m.) BRISBANE, this day. A man entered the Albion branch of the Queensland Bank and fired pointblank at the teller, evidently with blank cartridge. The teHer rushed for a revolver, when the man jumped the counter, grabbed 70 sovereigns from a gold tray, and escaped.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 48, 25 February 1910, Page 5
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