CHINESE COFFIN MYSTERY
POSSIBLE WRECK IN PACIFIC.
By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Sydney, January 14. The mystery of a Chinese coffin found floating near the Heads grows deeper, as portions of another one have been washed up the Maroubra beach. The coffins are marked with the numbers-88 and
87. Members of the local Chinese community express the opinion that the o-rim flotsam is portion of a “death cargo” of some small vessel wrecked in the°Pacific while bearing Chinese rema’is homa.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 January 1931, Page 7
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