Leisurely Tour of Southern Seas
SEEKING ROMANCE ON JOSEPH CONRAD Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. The full rigged ship Joseph Conrad arrived to-day 10 months out of Harwich harbour, on a leisurely voyage round the world. For the last 22 days she has been making her way across the Tasman from Melbourne to Auckland and after a few days here she will sail for the islands of the Pacific and then round the Horn and back to England. The owner and master of the Joseph Conrad is Mr. A. J. Villiers, a former Australian journalist, who travelled before the mast in Scandinavian and Danish vessels before he became an owner in sail. He has written books of the sea. On board her are four mining engineers and prospectors, Messrs T. J. Shephard, T. White, H. Slocombe and E. Herbert. They are Australians who are travelling as Villiers’ guests to an unnamed tropic island where they have hopes of finding and developing rich gold deposits. Two American ladies who arrived at Auckland by the Mariposa yesterday, Airs. M. A. Lindsley, a traveller and writer, and her daughter, are to join the Joseph Conrad for the voyage back to New York. They will travel as Villiers’ guests-
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 44, 22 February 1936, Page 5
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