AN ANCIENT RELIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 302, 23 November 1883, Page 2

AN ANCIENT RELIC.

A curious " find ' has been made re-, oeiitlv m tl)o~ neighborhood of Sand— Awch, in.^gn^QljQse^tq^tho place \* here \he ilver Snakes' fts v 'ettt into -the aea. This i^ ndilnng less than* tlie'-burled hull vlitii old 1 smuggling veaseJp ying half-covered ih : inucl at the bittoai <ttf.' the .stream." It must have lain (embedded irTits -resCitfg^aee-fbr "'■ sejveral 0 centi\rre?, ' iuasiii deli as Some of, the the wood of which itwas*c6ftfp6sed had undergone petrifaction.' Tliesize otthe lugger isabout4o 16ns and it is supposed that she was : eligaged;iri carrying Jon a contraband trade wlien she was jsunk right iv mid-stream by a well-iimed shot from some Government iship.^ .This supposition is rendered almost 'certainly the fact" that m *the disea-^ tonib'eii vessel werei found s^v^ral|stone iars of autia v .ve i shape^-sitid^ package? eff and "moujdy tobacco, w^ile a i4lb ; ball was embedded^n tne T timbew of tlj.b hull. Oile oliHe' Tars' had been so sealed as tq have c^catie^ the effects orCWe and water, anfl "m • it/ rcnjaine4_ soni^ " 'strong-sinelliiig liqiror," wlucjh/ out to ( be handed over to k c6mpejejit , ftiifilyst; wifcb'ou|;.(|elay : , This tre^§uye^ v tf-py'c, w ; as CQttj.eHcrp.ss' m a ppittgoKy,, acadental^ayV %t was foijnd [lately T o ; bl:tf uction e^iste4 m thjp bed of the river, and the authorities at

'ts vW 9 i |BaK%|icti Haven gave orders for its rethe obstacle to navigation W™ M 1 to be tho contraband lugffer i n 3»r;, W . hichwili now * 'ssed IlyiUvesti S atedby archeoloIhe smugglers who loaded that Tesselwith their surreptitiou«j goods some couple ofhundred years ago little thought that they W-pSufiS materials for a museum of curiosities 'm the Victorian era.