VISIT TO THE KERMADECS.
(by telegraph—own corrhspondent.) Auckland, Monday. Thk Government steamer Stella arrived today from the Kermadec Islands. The object of the trip was to erect depots and leave supplies of stoies on three uninhabited islands, Curtis, Macaulay and l'Esperance Rock. At each island great difficulty was found in landing on account of the heavy sea. At Curtis Island one of the officers stepped into a boiling spring and severely scalded his foot. Captain Fairchild also planted a largo number of fruit and shelter trees at each island, and sowed seeils ot various kinds. On one Island (Curtis Island), a number of goats were loft. The Bell family on Sunday Island, were visited, and found all well. Mr 801 l informed Captain Fairchild that un the day before tho Stella arrived he found fragments of a whaleboat drifted ashore, together with three single boots, apparently of American make. This would most probablv point to the fact that a boat's crew from some American whaler in the vicinity had met with a serious mishap. Nothing, however, had been seen of any whaler in the neighbourhood of the group.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2517, 28 August 1888, Page 2
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188VISIT TO THE KERMADECS. Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2517, 28 August 1888, Page 2
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