MYSTERIOUS CRAFT.
HAUNTS NORTHERN AUSTRALIAN WATERS. SYDNEY, Sept. !). Mrs MacConnick, a missionary at Mapoon, on the Gulf of Carpentaria, reached Sydney to-day. She expresses surprise that the Federal Government has not cleared up the mystery of the strange ship which makes periodical appearance on the North Australian Coast.
There are various rnrimirs current as to the ship's purpose, which is generally regarded as nefarious. Once the sloop. Geranium searched the coast and reported she had sighted an unknown craft, which escaped later. The Protecror of Aborigines ai Thursday Island investigated and discovered nothing, except the grave of a Malayan not long buried.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 September 1929, Page 5
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