FLOATING MINE.
SIGHTED NEAR PATEA.
EXPLODED BY RIFLES. Press Association. WELLINGTON, January 20. When the steamer Waverley was approaching Patea from Wellington last Thursday, Captain Brigilen sighted a mine about 1G miles south of the river entrance. The' ship circled about the mine, the crew indulging in rille practice till the mine exploded.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1540, 20 January 1919, Page 8
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53FLOATING MINE. Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1540, 20 January 1919, Page 8
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