THE STOLEN YACHT.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17452, 12 May 1922, Page 6

THE STOLEN YACHT.

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towm TO / Dramatic upon the theft of the,^.^ Raatr. from her son wi. a n ° n the night® May 3rd and the 6eq J to be told. Th e sighted at sea by an incdni^^ identified, and left to dumSHi in the direction of the lands. The facte so stitute a story of pirscy as hazardous as any annals of the Dominion/ The owner of the v»«L , -s Staudish had Great Barrier for a he contemplated bein K weeks, he had taken^S' o '** supply of provisions W. la »2 of benzine. It ttj® practically certain that ♦£ { * w known to the thief. when tho little craft & «J: 5 her moorings aVcofi&PWfi* provender and fuel fm- v 1 engines for an exuded fe"S3fl the police were apprbS happened, with the result that before a clue to coming. On the day aft ?® *»« to} ol the yacht, namely 0 n T 4th. a store at Mercu™ angu, as it i s known to situated on the b™k« into the morning, and some viMon, arid tobacco reported at tho time k? # *V It 5 the description of W y a ?ht. On board the pairs of rubber sea-boots left by the unauthorised I seaside store on the^ Whitianga wharf I hoots The culprit* in therefore, adjud Ee d tn It, SI Investigations in other led the police to was in the first plat® nhfl! o individual, and that »,«V«*K ed in his adventure by though at the outset in one directiono% tep,C,ofl tWI In order to throw B -t 1 ,'|j venturesome th«V«, the wCI J1 telegraphic messages to iRKiS province, and to the Si 3 '5, j&ouses, inst ruotine all'S be on the look-out for the iffir her self-appointed cre^'; T h wireless messages to veswla *tit taming a description of th» yacht, and stating that it *imots that she was making for•. Sea Islands. Among ceived this, wiroless me®*?* captaui of the Union w air una, which arrived. from San Francisco on He and his officers police yesterday that at Monday they had swering to the description'tftKp about midway the Kerinadecs. sighted from tho course was altered proach near enou'gli to give those on to signal to the stieimtjfim'tfti 1 sired, and also investigation. wind was I yacht, which the scribed as schooner .'ti®i, E |J ning free, with , dressed in blue suits v in the cock-pit of the deck of the no sign, not any signal^uid'ioetli'l Wairuna's captain intervene, he came on to Auckland.. venturers on the likewise upon their vo;age,|i|(lkrli< Tonga or to the Kermtdiiq ii).|ihii! a further supply of stoneif Ipi surmised at this juncture.. -n The intrepid nature may be juaged from the Raata is a 40ft in length by '7ft' draught of only 3ft. 'Shp^''so9s reported to be a good bAWP*! rant has now been usueS. ftr if: rest of the principal iartjrW" be implicated in the ineft ofwW Furthermore, the' cated by wireless with the H.M.S. Chatham and which are both en route questing them to pick up the j»®J her occupants'if she is -.sm4kbF warships. The Tongan I (3oTCnipi®' also been communicated withp,«fP to arrest any. boat arnTiML J without a clearance from AnclWMj , is accordingly ariticipatea concerned in the affair hended at an early date. t ;■