A MIRAGE.
T: - - i!SKT' 2<(32S .OK'A -te/CW ' • ' , ' 4 ro"®6 c r o t. f!»re,4eaj- ; noss, revealing tho tho act of entering Port Phillip Head?, was witnessed (says e the Melbourne "Argus' 1 ) from the Customs launch, as she lay off 'Williamstown, thirty miles distant' as the crow flies from the actual scone. Portion of QueeiisclifF, togother with the West Channel pile }ight, and, other landmarks of lesser note, wfre also vividly shown in the " picture," which'only lasted a minute or so, ami then _ gradually 'disappeared. " That's thd'-Indr i tho Heads," remarked one of the crow of the Customs launch, 'consulting Jus' v watch at exactly twenty minutes Cto'two.-o'clock. Upon tho launch returning to Williamstown, it was ! .found that An otppuil message had been re";cc;#tl from'K}ucense!iff announcing that'the . 'Indradovi had passed through the Heads pre- ;■ Wisely at the- time when tho reflected picture ; ipreaafnted itself to t(ie ,yiow of those on board , itfiflflttunch.-f" '
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 74, 20 December 1907, Page 4
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152A MIRAGE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 74, 20 December 1907, Page 4
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