ANTIPODES ISLAND.
v> THE PROVISIONS kf 'ikft X)EPOT. . (BY TE&EGRATH— SKCUL COKRrSPONDENT.) ■/' : ' : : : ■':''■:'[■ Duneilln,'February 3. Captain: Bollons, , ' of the, c JEinenioa, brpught back from;. Antipodes Island' this, trip, :;evi-' denco ;in; refutation of-the-story- tola as .to' the. depot'-by\;'tli9 "master of the. President ' Felix. Faurej Wreckqd. in .March ■of last 'year." The complaint .was that-,the found the , provisions.' at, thei". ■ deipot. uneat-. able. ThelHinbmoa tovrbproyi-, sion the depot,■and'whon'Cap'taih'jßoilons'fe:turned a ho::repprted thatithe;.cp}Hplairifc:liad ; no foundation in oasos. of food left untouched/ and-all''of this perfectly, swnefc ap sound; coholudod. the master; of• .thp ; ;Hiiieinoa' brpuglit " .back soma .of t^e ] biscuits-frbni. tlVQ'old. : stock'' and. thoiigh seyeii. months'-havo., oTapsetf since" tho:tale was told,'this fo'dd.-is-'eqiiapih' condition to what one would Captain .Bollons showed tKeso '■'biscuits''io'.diir representativej' on:thejHiiib'mpH'V;,(feys '■" the "btar"). . Tlio .Fronchnian's;' ramplaiht"' js thus completely_'■ answered; first' by: the statement of Captain Bollons, and now, by the ovidenco of :: v.\ .. •'.:•';
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 423, 4 February 1909, Page 7
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142ANTIPODES ISLAND. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 423, 4 February 1909, Page 7
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