THE DREDGE MANCHESTER.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1460, 7 June 1912, Page 4

THE DREDGE MANCHESTER.

LIIE HOOT PICKED UP. •• (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Auckland, Juno G, 'A di-eovV-fy has been made on the west coast which'may throw tome light on the v.; ■'disappearance'of the Sydney Harbour' "v:. Trust's suction dredge Manchester, which:';''; left, Wellington for Sydney on April 6, ■:.; ...andWhich has not been heard of since/:'" OiuWediiesdyy afteriloon, while walking''- • "on;the beach at I'ollok, between Maiiukau. : >nrt Waikato Heads, Mr. Mciklc- discover-'/ 1 cil" ii life-buoy bearing the words (S.D. .. Manchester) "LyUcHoii." The lifc-lmoy . did not'appear to have been in the water long and the paint on it was compara-'f..-lively fresh. There were no further signs.,, of any wreckage in tlio vicinity. The mere fact of n life-buoy having been found " on?.the west '.coast does not necessarily ■■ ■■ imply that the Manchester was at any time in' the near vicinity, as there appears .to.bo'a.vc'ry curious current which brings portions', of. wreckage from thousands of miles away. In this connection it is in- ■■ .feres-ting- to note that some time back a life-buoy was found bearing indistinct let-. . j tcring which led .to the belief that it had:# i: belonged to the. ill-fated Waralah, which : -' I-is supposed.to have been lost oil the east i.c.oost of Africa. .........