The Hinemoa's Trip

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1665, 23 March 1886, Page 2

The Hinemoa's Trip

The B.s. Hinemoa. arrived at i?yttloton on tho^morniug of the 20th froth the ;/: Ah^ipodfes anid Bounty-island, whither;:.«he : .w,ent /for-Jthe-- purpose' o"f eßtabHs)^in^Btpj:e de'gpts for thote who ate unfortunate!. enough to be cast . upon thesebiirreu rshores, and the /Secretary of the Marino, Department jias received from Oaptalti Fairchild the following t ■telejg'ratn. 1 : r -r*' Wel.J arrivad. ,here.c at 4 this 'lhoHainj^N' We haVe ; -been J -very successful. Webuilt two houses, and. painted j^hem whit«.j One. an; the north, end of Ac* Antipodes, «nd'6ne""6n 'tlm Weßtern. Bounty., Landed^all the stores Jn good order, and found good anchorage' and. good land m both' places. Found plenty of- beautiful water at the Antipodes, but no wataron Bounty. Found remains of old huts on both places where people have been Jiving, but they must have been sailors from New Zealand, as all tin timber about the hut is New Zealand' wood. Mount Galloway, the highest part of the Antipodes, is 1320 feet high, and the highest Bounty is 290 feet high. There is no vegetation of any soft 1 on the Bounty, but coarse granita rock! The Autipodes has about 2500 acres of level land all covered with long grass. ' ,