AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.
(Per s.s. Wairarapa at the Bluff.)
(united press association..) Melbourne. An Adelaide telegram from Port Darwin states that a Malay, one of the crew of the schooner Minnie, owned by Mr Walton, of Thursday Island, who arrived from Bowen Straits on Saturday, reports that the Minnie left Thursday Island for Derby with the intention of pearling^for twelve months m company' with another schooner and three other boats. Four days after leaving the Minnie ran on a reef, and became a total waeck. Pieces of wreck were secured by the crew,' and after spending three days and nights on the water the Malay and two other*, reached some small island. The remained there seven mop ths with the Natives, The blacks then "too£ "them fishing along the coast. They remained with them four months more, and tiea came to Bo wen Straits. One European and three. Malays, ore supposed' to have been drowned. ' *
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1722, 1 June 1886, Page 2
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154AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY. Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1722, 1 June 1886, Page 2
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