NUHAKA TO AMERICA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1622, 9 December 1905, Page 2

NUHAKA TO AMERICA.

i —0 A MORMON GIRL’S ADVENTURES

San Francisco, Sept. 2,

In commenting on the detention of Kate Smith, of Nuhaka, New Zealand, who was taken from four missionaries who brought her in on the Venture, Immigrant Inspector Griffiths said : “ There is a constaet stream of young girls passing through here in charge of Mormon elders.” The Smith girl is 12 years of age, but looks older. She is taU and attractive, though her dark complexion reveals an admixture of Maori blood. She came with Eiders Charles B. Bartlett, George Cowley, T. V. Finlayson, and Joseph Thompson; The first two named refused to submit to vaccination, and are held at the quarantine station to await developments from their exposure to small-pox contagion on the voyage. The immigration officers have wired to Salt Lake City, the destination of the party, to sea whether the girl’s story that her parents reside there is true. She appears to be intelligent, and had ready answers to the questions o£ the officers, Sbe claims to be on her way to the Mormon headquarters for schooling. The Immigration Bureau detained four young girls who arrived from Australia i<v charge of Mormon missionaries a montff.; ago, but they were spirited from the ! steamer and out of the city while- the investigation of their story was pending, The United States Attorney is now suing tbo steamship oompany for allowing tktm to land against the Government’s orders, Washington having sustained the ruling of the looal officials in the matter,,