IN THE ISOLATED CHATHAMS.
SELF-CENTRED FOLK. It might be thought that in their solitude the inhabitants of tho Chatham Islands would receive items of important news with interest, but a rcecnt visitor, now in Wellington, states that they are almost indifferent to tho happenings and doings in the great world outside their ken. A case in point occurred when the news of the late King's death was conveyed to Pitt Island. As a steamer's boat approached the landing-place, a man ashore was hailed, "Have you heard that the King is dead?" "No," was the reply. "Have you brought my ease of kerosene?" There was a tracc of mild, surprise ond feeling in the initial negative, but the commercial inquiry followed without a break.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19100708.2.28
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 863, 8 July 1910, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
123IN THE ISOLATED CHATHAMS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 863, 8 July 1910, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in