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SEVEN DAYS OVERDUE. SYDNEY, Tuesday. All steamers leaving this port are instructed to keep a lookout for the Shire liner Perthshire, now seven days overdue on the trip from Sydney to the Bluff. If no news is received in a day or two a search steamer will be sent out. [The direct distance from Sydney to the Bluff, via Foveaux Straits, is 1107 miles, and it usually takes steamers about five days to make the passage. Mrs J. Barnett, a sister of Mr S. Robinson, of Wellington, with her five children, is, we learn, a passenger by the Perthshire from Rockhampton to the Bluff, where she has relatives.] INVERCARGILL, Tuesday. At noon to-day a pigeon arrived from Puysegur Point lighthouse with a despatch for Lloyd's agent here. The message was to the effect that there was no sign of the s.s. Perthshire. Tbs bird had probably been releasee about 8 a.m.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 3736, 10 May 1899, Page 6
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