BOTTLE FROM SHIPWRECKED CREW COMES ACROSS OCEAN

San Francisco. Dec. 19, 1910 — A bottle containing an appeal for help from shipwrecked sailors in far away New Zealand was washed up on the beach near Ocean View today and found by Martin Muloney. The following message is written on a page from a memorandum book: “Help wanted quick; latitude 37 degrees, 20 minutes, 30 seconds north: longitude 180 degrees, 28 minutes, 35 seconds. Island reef to the north. Food all gone except one cask of hardtack.” The note was signed: “Captain Johnson, schooner Daylight, Tahiti. Sailed June 1. 1910. Fifty-foot schooner.” The location described in the note is just off the north point of North island, New Zealand, and in direct path of the ocean current that sweeps by the island with its course toward San Francisco.

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