NOTICE TO MARINERS.
The following notice, received from the Government of Queensland, is published for general information. Notwithstanding the Admiralty Australian Directory of 18f54, page 208, mentions that v eettlcment wa3 then being formed at Port Albany, masters of vessels which have since been wrecked on the Barrier Reef seem to have been unawure of the existence of any such settlement in Torres Straits. Notice is therefore hereby given, that wrecked crews can obtain shelter awd assistance at Somerset, on tlie south side of Albany Pass, and that they will bo forwarded thence to the most convenient port by the first opportunity. Masters of vessels not proposing to communicate with the settlement, are urgently requested, when passing to make their number by the Commercial Code, and also to signal tho port from v?hich they havo sailed and that to which they are bound.
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Wellington Independent, Volume XXV, Issue 3041, 3 September 1870, Page 4
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143NOTICE TO MARINERS. Wellington Independent, Volume XXV, Issue 3041, 3 September 1870, Page 4
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