THE PORT STEPHENS.
VESHELS ON THE LOOK-OUT. |DT TELEQRAPIi.— I'HKSS ASSOCIATION.') DUNEDIN, 16th October. The Union Company has instructed Captain Stringer. 6f the Rakanoa, to search for the abandoned steamer Port Stephens. He wiill spend some days about the locality where the Port Stephens was last seen, and 1 then call at the Bluff nnd telegraph the result of tho search before proceeding to Newcastle. The Rakanoa carries an extra, crew and a (special supply of bunker coal. The steamer loft to-night. " There is a possibility that the abandoned at-earner may have been picked up by the Hinemoa, which left some days ago to moke her periodical examination of the depots at the Auckland and other 'islands. SYDNEY, 16th October. It is considered in shipping circles that the crew of the steamer Port Stephens were justified; in abandoning tho vessel, owing to her position and the way she was drifting.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXII, Issue 93, 17 October 1906, Page 2
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150THE PORT STEPHENS. Evening Post, Volume LXXII, Issue 93, 17 October 1906, Page 2
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