A MESSAGE FROM THE SEA.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12455, 3 February 1909, Page 4

A MESSAGE FROM THE SEA.

.■; ■ ♦- rr - .'._■■' "■/.=■ supposed castaways:' .[United Press Association.] -:■:', : r/ . ;'' Greymouth. 2. s This afternoon - Mv\ Walsh, of the : -Gladstone street sawmill' siding, while fishing atthe mouth of the TeremaWau river, about nine 'miles from Greymouth,; picked up a bottle containing, the following nofe:— "Whosoever should" find it will know that we," Henry Ford ;and William Kannbe, 'are shipwrecked on an is land about 40 miles south of the Bluff, md we are in an extremely serious position, having Had noth. ing to eat and only water to drinK.' pg' -i-r-Kindly send a steamer { Signed ) . N. F. - and W: X. , November 15th, 1908." '. . .-:.. The note was 'written on a. blanK envelope.. . ; ; s " ' ' ... : , ■' ' " ■ : .-' ' ■• •' '■ • ' "'- ' ' ■•-' !; ' .'•