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Temuka Leader, Issue 2040, 1 May 1890, Page 4

On the Ist May butchers’ meat in Wellington will be advanced from -|d to 2d per lb, according to joints, both in beef and mutton. A meeting has been held to form a co-operative butchery. Advices received at Queenstown state that the American ship Joseph Spinney arrived at Hiogo, Japan, on January 3rd, with six Pelew Islanders, whom she had picked up in an open canoe over 200 miles from land. On November 23rd seven men and their old king set out to pay a visit to a chief on another island of the Pelew group. Their craft was a “ dug-out ” canoe 30ft long, with only 15in beam. Before they could make their port of destination a gale sprang up, and they were blown out to sea, They were without food and water. In this fearful condition they remained for sixteen days. On December 11th the old king, faint with hunger and mad with thirst, decided that bis boy, agod sixI teen, must be killed, in order that the others might lire. Preparations for the sacrifice were nearly completed when the sails of the Joseph Spinney appeared on the horizon, and the boy was saved. The men, when rescued, presented a fearful sight. The king was so wasted that the chief mate carried him up the ship’s gangway under his arm, and the old man and another of the men shortly afterwards died.