THE SUPPOSED WRECK

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160735, 23 August 1920, Page 11

THE SUPPOSED WRECK

POSITIVE EYE-WITNESSES A VESSEL IN DISTRESS. {Per United Press Association.) GISBORNE, August 23. Messrs S. McCrae and E. Williams, the two men who reported the supposed wreck, telephoned ihis afternoon expressing their positive opinion that the object Svghled v. as not a mirage, but a vessel in distress. It was also seen by Mr Graham manager of the Rototahi Station, ami rm son, through binoculars, The vessel appeared about five miles out, and the Arahura on her way to Auckland passed between the derelict and the shore. The weather was then misty, and the wreck could not be discerned from the shore, but the haze afterwards lift id, and the vessel oouli bo seen quite distinctly lying in the trough of the waves, very low in the water. Mr Mcßae watched it for two hours, and Mr Graham and his son till dusk. Mr McCrae said he is convince;', it was a steamer and not a sailer, and was a large vessel of the mutton boat t\ re.