THE NIMROD'S RETURN.
A YOUNG ADVENTURER. STOWAWAY ON THE NIMROD. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Lyttelton, December 2. The crew of the Nimrod'was much astonished yesterday as the vessel passed out of the heads to discover a boy of 13 or 14 stowed away among the stores. The discovery was quite accidental, mj the boy might have gone a long way before lieing found. He said he wanted to go all the way. Naturally it was impossible to take hiin. A launch happened to come up soon afterwards, and the young adventurer was handed, protesting vigorously, over to her. Ho wept bitterly at the disappointment. I}e is a Chris)tchurch boy. It is not beyond suspicion that bis parents were not ignorant of his intention.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 291, 3 December 1908, Page 2
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122THE NIMROD'S RETURN. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 291, 3 December 1908, Page 2
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