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Temuka Leader, Issue 2405, 29 September 1892, Page 3

An Island Tragedy.—Once more has truth plagiarised fiction, and Nature shamelessly stolen one of Mr Robert Louis Stevenson's plots. His latest story, " The Wrecker," we are told, cannot be published fast enough to supply the demand, and now its events have actually occurred. A few months ago the schooner Undine, 180 tons, sailed from San Francisco for the South Sea Islands in command ol Captain Castrella. At Honolulu ty, intra, professing to be tho h,rQ#iejp $f the mate, joined, aad [\\M tyy% WW Weft* " tf captain in cold bjp.Qd in hia eftbiu. * ail( j the other.' miurdereft the Buper<^ r{?o he came down to see l 0 lia i the shot Then tho n^ w were called aft and supplied w \«d poisoned liquor. One man only was spared, and he was dr'ered the choice between a bribe e,f: lOOOdol and immediate death, Ho chose to join the pirates, and the eohooiicr engaged a native crew and proceeded to the Ascension Islands. There, however, the spare man betrayed the others to the pilot who caine on board, and the two broth eva viw-e arrested and conveyed in irqns \§ Manila.

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