WEALTH RECOVERED FROM THE SEA.
An Oporto correspondent tells the following interesting story of a strange recovery ot shipwrecked pro. perty : —Some six years ago the Marine Insurance Company of London insured a case containing about 20,000 worth of Brazilian bank notes, shipped in the steamer Buenos Ayres,’ from Pernambuco to Rio de Janeiro. The steamer was wrecked. When the vessel was sinking all the crew got into the boats with the exception of the captain and a few who were employed in bringing on deck the passengers’ luggage, the mails and the case containing the Brazilian paper money. While they were thus engaged the steamer seemed about to founder, and the men were sent to the boats, the captain
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XIX, 9 May 1896, Page 522
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120WEALTH RECOVERED FROM THE SEA. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XIX, 9 May 1896, Page 522
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