AN ABANDONED WHALE.
MISTAKEN FOR WRECK.
... > I [ (By Telegraph.Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. I A message received on Saturday from 1 the Ferry Hotel, near the Wairarapa , i Lake outlet, reporting what appeared 1 ,to be a capsized vessel adrift in Palliser bay, the Government steamer Janie Scddon yesterday made search, but ' : without "finding anything. The incoming | steamer Himitaugi threw light on the matter by reporting a large dead whale floating midway between Wellington .j Heads and Cape Campbell. A rope was-.: J found attached to the whale, which had ': evidently been abandoned or broken . adrift. It is believed this may be what - the Ferry Hotel people, mistook for an, " overturned .vesseL
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 149, 24 June 1918, Page 4
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112AN ABANDONED WHALE. Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 149, 24 June 1918, Page 4
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