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. PROBATE COURT PRESUMES DEATH. . STRANGE ADVENTURES. 1 By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. • '(Rec. July 20, 0.35 a.m.) ■ , London, July 19. The Probate Court granted leave to presume the death in-1895 of John Willis Kirkaldy, a trader in the Pacific. He corresponded with his relatives from 1885 till 1892, when he was'shipwrecked on an unnamed and uninhabited island of the Solomon Group. He remained there, Crusoe-like, for threo years,-, and was then rescued-with a man named Vandrune. Both went to New Zealand, and later Kirkaldy wrote from Sydney saying he was joining Vandrune in New Zealand'for a big trade/scheme with the Solomons. Letters sent him after that time were returned. .
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 873, 20 July 1910, Page 7
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108MISSING. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 873, 20 July 1910, Page 7
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