TWO MASTHEAD LIGHTS.

The Horsham Times, Friday 29 March, 1912.

Fremantle was advised on Wednesday

morning from Geraldton to the following 

effect :

At 8.30 last night a steamer, with

two masthead lights and well lit up,

passed Point Moore, bound south.

This information occasioned the usual

speculation and the usual rumour that

the passer by would prove to be the

overdue vessel. However, if the vessel

passed so close to Point Moore she

could have sent a Morse cede message 

- to the effect that she was the Koombana

and thus have relieved all anxiety. As far 

as can be gathered, there is no vessel 

due at Fremantle from that direction, but 

she might easily be a timber boat, bound 

for Bunbury, or an overseas ship, bound

from the Far East.

It would also have been extremely strange for Koombana to have gone as far as Point Moore, almost 900 miles away, without making her presence, safety and purpose known.

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