THE TASMANIA WRECK.
ATTEMPTS TO FLOAT THE HULL.
(press association , telegram.)
GISBORNE, March 5.
Bopes are still held in Gisborce that some day the lull of the wrecked steamer Tasmania and cargo will be raised. A local syndicate claim to be the owners, card to have legal documents showing the sale to them, but acknowledge !Mr Rothschild's right to the jewellery. Originally Mr Porter set. out. from Auckland to see what could .be done with the wreck- His little' vessel was wrecked on the way down. A local syndicate then took the matter up. In conjunction with Mr Porter, they fitted cut a vessel and appliance*, and spsnt a considerable sum in an unsuccessful attempt to obtain salvage. They claim to h-ive purchased the wreck, "hoping that Belle's patent would prove effective. They parted with a certain interest provisionally for paid up shares, but the Belle Company did not prosper. The wrecked vessel is believed io be lying upright on a hard bottom, and embedded in about six feet, of sand.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11525, 6 March 1903, Page 6
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