TIN OF BEEF .
EIGHTY-ONE YEARS OLD
RELIC OF FRANKLIN EXPEDITION.
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 10.30 a.m. to-dav LONDON, April' 21. A tin of beef, forming part of the stores of the Franklin Expedition, which were abandoned at Beechev island, Barrow Strait, in 1845, vv.as opened by Professor Beatty, of Liverpool University. The meat still looked eatable, though it was found among a heap of opened tins which Captain Fitz James apparently had 1 thrown away uneaten 81 years ago, leading to the supposition that the expedition failed through the Admiralty’s faulty packing of meat. —Sydney Sun Cable.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 22 April 1926, Page 5
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97TIN OF BEEF . Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 22 April 1926, Page 5
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