STEWART ISLAND PROCLAMATION
SEARCH FOR HISTORIC DOCUMENT
r Per Press Association—Copyright. J INVERCARGILL. This Day.
H.M.S. Dunedin, which has been at Bluff for over a week, will leave for Port Pegasus,- Stewart Island, this morning. During the ship’s stay there Mr T. Lindsay Buick, of the Turnbull Library, Wellington, will search for a copy of the proclamation declaring British sovereignty at Port Pegasus.
Captain Nias, commander of H.M.S. Herald, read the proclamation in June, 1840. One copy was left by Captain Nias in a bottle, which he buried in a spot described in the 'ship’s log. Mr Buick has extracts from the log, and he hopes from these directions to find the document. The directions contained in H.M.S.
Herald’s log are not very clear, and difficulty will probably be experienced in finding the bottle. It is buried on an island which becomes a peninsula at low water. The fact that the bays and inlets of Port Pegasus in many instances carry more than one name will add to the searcher’s- difficulties.
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Northern Advocate, 9 March 1936, Page 2
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171STEWART ISLAND PROCLAMATION Northern Advocate, 9 March 1936, Page 2
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