MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE.
(Feom Oue Own Cobuespondmt.) CTJRISTCHURCH. February 6. Willi repaid to tho Melbourne cablegram slating that a bottle thrown from "the Antarctic ship Discovery in December. 1903, has been washed ashore in the vicinity if Capo Schanck, Mr Reginald Ford, iif Ohristolmrch. who wo 3 one of the staff of the Discovery, writes io the Press that "unless iho date is incorrectly stated the message in tho bottle must be another of those bottle jokes which some foolisn people are frequently olaying. On Decern her. 1903, tho Discovery was fast B'own iu the ice, separated some 30 or 'i 0 miles by an unbroken sheet of ice from ih« nearest onen water. In Dceemher, 1902. the conditions were similar. The thrower must have, had a long arm. I have no knowledge of any sealed bottle containing a. dated document being thrown overboard from the Discovery at iany time during her voyage."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13821, 7 February 1907, Page 8
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154MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE. Otago Daily Times, Issue 13821, 7 February 1907, Page 8
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