A ROUGEMONT YARN.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Thursday Island, Juno 26. Eight men, described as Arabs or Lascars, brought from Grenville, tell an extraordinary story. They stato thoy loft an unnamed port in a small schoonor and voyaged for three months without calling anywhorc. Tho schooner foundered in a gale, and tho men swam together for oight days, eventually lauding at Capo Gronyillo. Tho supposition is that thoy oither jumped from a passing steamer or aro escapees from Now Caledonia.
A RUINED ROMANCE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Thursday Island, Juno 26. The Arabs wero brought beforo the Polico Court. The ovidence disproved their story. A letter addressed to a prisoner at Now Caledonia was found on one, and a Noumea paper on another.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 143, 27 June 1901, Page 2
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121A ROUGEMONT YARN. Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 143, 27 June 1901, Page 2
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