A DERELICT

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 156, 30 December 1925, Page 6

A DERELICT

BELIEVED TO BE A MISSIN(? ■■■■ .KETCH. „-'

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(Received 30th December, 10 a.m.);

SYDNEY, This Day.

The master of the schooner Eolmwobd; from WanganUi to NeweiUtle, has reported that he sighted, on . th» 12th inst, an upturned wooden vessel floating aboiit a hundred miles north;We»i bf the ribrth (end of the' North Isla.id of New Zealand. It is believed to be the missing ketch Lialeeta. -

The Uetch LialeeU has iiot been hefti'd Of Since the night of 13th-'April, wilett she left Semaphore Mteif tnk« ihg ill stoteii^ ".ITbe 1 -Veßseli'.**iied"iiylit. Knight, -Wtitl vfcltted iifc *iodij,, and. Wsurcd for ,*Jt3OO, At the thariue iilqtiiry the hiwboHr* mastdr at taunccston said he had in* sp'ecfced th'fe. vessel,.and'wosot Opinion* that ahe.was wellioumti : Asagftlußt this, >lettW from* Johii Bell, leading haiid oft thb Retch, Was read, ift whicli he stated ttiat» he did iibt think ho would do "many tiips as the ketch leaked, and had to be pUmped every; half-lioto to keep hfet dry.