The disappearance of four men fu a 16ft. fishing boat, from Rosebud, near Melbourne, Victoria, has caused considerable apprehension. They disappeared on the afternoon of November 18 and parties have been out since then, searching for them. Scaplanes ' were used in the search, but no trace of the missing men has been found. On Melbourne Cup Day, November 6, two men disappeared in similar circumstances from a neighbouring seaside resort on the Port Phillip Bay shores. They have not been found, although their boat was discovered keel upwards many miles from where they had started out.
The mon missing are:—George Hurley, 34 years, of Mornington; Arthur Thompson, 41 years, Morington; Alfred Richards, 23 years, Rosebud; Robert Waddleton, 18 years, Rosebud, This part of the bay during the changeable season which is now taking place is sub-Jeet to heavy squalls which come Up with alarming. suddenness. It
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