NO SIGNS OF HER AT AUCKLAND.
ARRANGEMENTS FOR A SEARCH. Auckland, February 2. A steamer which was reported off Cape Brett, and supposed to be the Zealandia, Jtnucb overdue from San Francisco, proved to be the German warship Bussard. The steamer Waitangi left to-night for Mokohinau and the Great Barrier to search for the Zealandia, and the i Wellington, 'which leaves for Whangarei this I evening, will go to Bream Head, and search the Poor Knights on the same HMssion. j The captain of the Busuard, which left last night for Sydney, -promised to look out for the , missing mail boat Zrsalandia. The Wellington will search the coast from Bream Head. The Waitangi is expected baok to-morrow night. Wellington, February 2. It is supposed that the steamer which was sighted off Cape Brett wkr the German warship Bussard. As the Zealandia had not arrived to-day, the ' Postmaster-general has given instructions for a steamer to go in search of her and look round the islands in Hauraki Gulf.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2240, 4 February 1897, Page 30
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167NO SIGNS OF HER AT AUCKLAND. Otago Witness, Issue 2240, 4 February 1897, Page 30
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