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. STEWART ISLAND HISTORY . (Special to Times) INVERCARGILL, Friday The 100th anniversary of the declaration of British sovereignty over Stewart Island will be commemorated at Port Pegasus on June 5. Further efforts will be made before June to determine, if possible, the exact site where the bottle containing the proclamation of sovereignty in the name of Queen Victoria was buried by the party from H.M.S. Herald. The location is an intriguing mystery to Stewart Islanders, New Zealand historians and the British Admiralty. If war had not intervened, the Admiralty’s researches in London might well have thrown light on the mystery, the solution of which was sought some years ago by a party from H.M.S. Dunedin. In the event of the bottle and the historic document not being unearthed a cairn of boulders will probably be erected at a point where most of the students of the geographical problem believe that the English naval party took possession of the island.
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21052, 2 March 1940, Page 4
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