ALLEGED SMUGGLING.
T T U j‘ P d Press Assooiatioc~By EicoL ' " trie Telegraph—Copyright. Brisbane, April 27. Capiain Haa n ', of the German (garner Siar, reports tlr-it when off Rrifi-* 1 Wow Guinea ho saw a steamer about 3000 tons lying near Kotn-“-jsjfu;;l, and to tho northward of the Btuftiner were live large native failing vessels. He shaped a coarse fnr the steamer 10 ask for Greenwich time, hie chronometer being nut, bat Jl, o a>i-0r wheeled around and went 'LwfU-d at full speed. The sailing vo'sael:s also turned back, Captain Han"'went after the steamer but cooW DCfc oatch her. He came to tho coaclnsiou that she was engaged iVstnnggling operations and mistook t i ie "siar for the Government steamer Merrie England. When the Slar was a considerable distance to the southward, the steamer wheeled round aatl appeared to go back towards Eetava.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9741, 28 April 1910, Page 5
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143ALLEGED SMUGGLING. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9741, 28 April 1910, Page 5
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