LATEST. THE MISSING RAFT PICKED UP
EIGHT PERSONS ON BOARD. ABOUT THIRTY STILL MISSING. Mr. Gray, Secretary of the Post Office, this afternoon received the following telegram from the officer in charge at Auckland :—: — "Auckland, 2.22 p.m. — Following from Tiritiri: Omapere signalled man-o'-war picked up raft with eight survivors — rapidly recovering." Tiritiri Lighthouse, fron wfci'eh tae above message was sent, is about 15 miles from Auckland. The Omapere shown reach Auckland shortly before 4 o't'lo. k. It was reported yesterday that H.M.S. Penguin had gone on a cruise searching for the missing boat and raft in a northeasterly direction. She was to have gone sixty miles in that direction, and apparently the judgment n>>iich prompted this course has been rewarded. So far' as can be ascertained, this leaves one boat and some thirty persons missing.
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Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 118, 14 November 1902, Page 6
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