HOPE FOR THE CLAIMET YET.

Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1350, 19 November 1884, Page 4

HOPE FOR THE CLAIMET YET.

tyjFWSl!'' . Ti&es ; publishes the follpw^ng m^eregting :-?■ Borne years since, the .lieuds and adherents of the Tichborne claimant ap^fipd io the Vi^orian Government, theli 1 . 1 object being to ascertain thrpUjgli the Otistoma of that pprt v if afly <yQRSeI. named the. Osprey had visited Port "Phillip between 1840 •nd^J.Bs2, wit.X.a view to, prove, the probability of the claimant's ..story thaifr&giM^en :;pi»k6d up^as a caß^ ! awiy'M tii'e South -American cbast by acvessel named the Osprey, bound fori'M'elbourtfe. The answer of the Melß6hrne'^. i uthoi"ities was exceed* ingly disappointing to the applicants, inasmuch aß:.tke former stated that thetr- r^etlrds showed -that the' only crrfftr 1 cAHdd' tfae* Osprey wbich had ever— '• visited - Hobson's Bay was a schooner,' \v»bifch was baiit m the colo'nte^^Bd' wnicb. ; for some yeari tra|(p!.;. between Melbourne Wharf ana 'Geeio'ngi It is now it cynteST tiblv proved v that..a, transjpor^shjp uameo! tlie 'Osprey did "sail . pjeriddi/ caljy/ bet^veen the" Thames ah^l Meibowdaf? t i.Hobart,?- and Sydney. "Witlin the past few daystheDelen^eT)epartmeat have been engaged: m a number of shot and ' cartridge -^ases from the. old stores vh. Mo^tttoCeok-Barraoka, to -the newh« •leoted brick stores, and amongst otbjir~l)oxesond cases are several en 'whm"nlay^till '-'be^ plaint V read th : e. raxtt>* for Melbourne , ;" or'^ydney,'"' or^Hobfirt," as tht ease may be. The Yeßsel^refe'ied to would appear to I have been &' - regular ; trade* to ,c.. the , aa, .. the' boxes* tin,/ addition .to the name. "Qsprey,' 1 bear,,, ihe dates 1844, 18^1.854 and. 1856. .These, facts . x wogidiitberefore* do away i with: tho of t^repeated, assertion, thati no; such abipias the. Osprey ever visited Aus-triiiLj.-tlt.iia.-imotQrious that m: the «arly days of the Australian cold*' nies the - public records w.ere badly presec^edjAißd^nQthing is , more pro-i bable than that the arrival of a Gov^rpjoa^nt . )^jould^ nolJbfl'.ip.j.ftCfiurately ; recprdeq. a^ a jger.qtynpwwjL.. , The [.'. nniiipg ; of anigiui^ii ion 'caegs m. l^^w. .Zieajland consigned s to • •iftte^?fi!9?y ; iß . easiljr.eisjplainedj by the »ct that durmg ; the , Maori troubles, the , ... troop's , ; drafted, from Australia and" .brought with them ,tlje original ammuni ion eases.,. . Aii^y.^i 8 ' I* 1 . 6 , .packages and cases bearing the Of prey mark plalsed s tlp6ir't&eni' at^ t&8 -> JibpfiruU 1 Arsenals ia prima?facie elvidence that a ihip named the -Osprey certainly di(t?wit the colonies ,iq the pearly d»yfj>f,the.*ettlenje.ni« ; ;'< -u-.-y.i J.