NORFOLK ISLAND.
CHARGE AGAINST MEMBER OF EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
A DEMONSTRATION.
Received October 16, 9.15 a.rn
NORFOLK ISLAND, October 16. John F. Young, a member of the Executive Council, was acquitted on a charge of being an accessory before the fact to stealing the copper hoiler of the Bounty. There was a demonstration over the result of the trial, the islanders singing the National Anthem.
The Bounty was an English ship whose crew, after leaving Tahiti, mutinied, in 1789, under the lead of Fletcher Christian. The captain, Bligh, and eighteen of the crew were seb adrift in a small boat, and ultimately reached England. The mutinesrs, under the lead of John Adams, fettled on Pitcairn Island. They mingled with the natives, and formed eventually a curiously isolated, but civilised, community. Norfolk Island was peopled by them.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3020, 17 October 1908, Page 5
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135NORFOLK ISLAND. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3020, 17 October 1908, Page 5
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