MESSAGE FROM THE SEA.
♦ fnT TELEGRAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. Tuesday. ! While troopship No. 60, with the fifteenth reinforcements on board, was making the voyage from Wellington 0 ■England, a bottle containing a letter was y > « OW -^ erb ° ard , so « l h of Tasmania. After drifting for 3J years the bottle was picked up by natives in the New Hebrides and given to a missionary, who forwarded . the contents to Wellington. The New : Hebrides are between 2000 and 2500 miles from the point at which the bottle was thrown overboard.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17444, 14 April 1920, Page 8
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