INACCESSIBLE ISLANDS.
The' Crown. Agents for the Colonies are inviting tenders for a,license conferring the exclusive right to occupy the Nightingale and Inaccessible Islands and Gough Island for whaling, sealing, and getting guano. The islands in question are a small group of which Tristan da Cunha is the principal, in the Atlantic, midway between, the Cape and South America. The licensees have to undertake .that whenever they despatch a vessel io or from the islands it shall touch at Tristan da Cunha fpr mails and goods and that they will maintain good order oh the islands. This should not be difficult, as the population of the chief island, Tristan da Cunha, is only at the most probably 100 sbuls, while, according to the Colonial Office List, "there is no strong drink on the island, and no crime."' The peo-i pie live under the moral rule of their' oldest inhabitant. * The population consists of descendants of the remnant of the military force which held ' Tristan da Cunha in the days of Napoleon, certain shipwrecked sailors, and wives who were imported from St. Helena.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 16 October 1913, Page 6
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182INACCESSIBLE ISLANDS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 16 October 1913, Page 6
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