A SILLY HOAX.
Per Press Association.
Auckland, December 4. Chambers, who was the purser Of the ill-fated Elingamite, after investigation of the message found in a bottle at Kaihu Creek, purporting to have been signed by Fraser, engineer, and stating that the Elingamite had been wrecked, that the second mate was mad, etc., states that it is not genuine and that the writing does not resemble Fraser's. The third mate was in charge of the boat Fraser was in, not the second mate's boat, and the bottle in which the message was found was of a brand not kept in the Elingamite's stores.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 281, 5 December 1907, Page 7
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103A SILLY HOAX. Manawatu Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 281, 5 December 1907, Page 7
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