SEA MYSTERY.
LONG OCEAN DRIFT. CUTTER REPORTED SAFE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SUVA, March 15. | Some three or four months ago the auxiliary cutter Tui Buabua set out for Levuka from one of the , Lau islands, and was never heard of again, being reported as lost with all hands. Last week, however, a persistent rumour was afloat among the native population that the vessel had drifted ashore on a small uninhabited island in the Solomons group, and that all the crew were well. The captain, a man named Amos, was specially mentioned.
Inquiries at the office of the High Commissioner and also from the owners of the craft, Morris, Hedstrom, Ltd., elicited the statement that no such news had been received.
On a previous occasion when natives reported a somewhat similar incident nothing was known officially until some weeks later. If the native story is true the long drift is a veritable sea adventure — a story of much suffering and much privation.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 68, 21 March 1934, Page 11
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