WITHOUT WATER.
THE OWNER LETS LOOSE THE FLUID. AiND THEN DISAPPEARS. A TRYING TIME 'AT SEA. [PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] Gisborne, July 1. The fishing boat, Jane, arrived in Auckland last evening. Captain Mack in his statement when 'giving •further |particulai|i oi?* jthe loi|s ot Mr Christie, owner of the boat, said that on June 17 Mr Christie packed up his clothes. and said he was going ashore. Tlie Captain told him that he could not go, as he had lost the dingy. Mr Christie then wanted him to run tho vessel on the rocks. Whilst Captain Mack was resting, Mr Christie, having taken all the tobacco and turned the watei* cask, bung dowu, disappeared. -..;■-' Captain Mack was four days at sea without water. He says that Christie had been on a drinking bout at Auokland, and duTing the voyage developed halhiciations. [After Mr Christie's mysterious disappearance in the night, Gap-term Mack, single handed, managed to.navigate Ihfs jsnuall ty'art safely into
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 613, 2 July 1908, Page 2
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160WITHOUT WATER. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 613, 2 July 1908, Page 2
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