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PROCLAMATION OF SOVEREIGNTY SEARCH AT STEWART ISLAND (Per United Press Association) INVERCARGILL, March 8. H.M.S. Dunedin, which has been at Bluff for over a week, will leave for Port Pegasus, Stewart Island, to-morrow 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 the captain 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 lop: are not very clear, and difficulty will probably be experienced in finding the bottle. It is buried on an island which becomes ft peninsula at low water. The exact place where the bottle ia buried is not known, and the fact that the bays and inlets of Port Pegasus in many instances carry more than one name will add to the difficulties of the search.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22825, 9 March 1936, Page 10
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186HISTORIC DOCUMENT Otago Daily Times, Issue 22825, 9 March 1936, Page 10
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