FIFTY YEABS AGO
THE MARIE ANGE MYSTERY
A lifeboat belonging to tho barque Marie Ango was found in Doughty Bay on August 4, ISB4. The boat was stove in and otherwise damaged. The llingarooma's captain reported seeing a large fire on Eed Head, and others when passing Puysegur. A medicine chest marked "Marie Ange" had been found at Orepuki tho week before. Tho revenue vessel ICokeno was instructed, to search about Preservation Inlet, and the Hinemoa also conducted an unsuccessful search of the vicinity.
The official steaming time of the Tongariro in her record-breaking run from Ly^telton to Plymouth was given by her captain us 37 days 20 hours 52 minutes, representing an average speed of 12 knots. The average from Now Zealand to MageJlan Strait was 13.57 knots, and tho }ast day's work- was 33D knots (for 22| hours). Her coal consumption was 54 tons daily, eleven less than on her previous trip and twelve less than that of the Ruapehu, whose time she beat by eight minutes. Tho Tongariro was the second New Zealand direct steamer to pass through
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 36, 11 August 1934, Page 21
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181FIFTY YEABS AGO Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 36, 11 August 1934, Page 21
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