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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11842, 20 December 1901, Page 3 (Supplement)

their liberty. .. •- > The Rev. H. Van Stavern, wbojias just - returned to . Wellington from the Kermadec Islands, which he visited in the Government steamer Hinemoa, is not favourably impressed with that portion of New /Zealand's possessions. He says Ihe whole of the inlands are not worth two pence. A • fev oranges and kumaras can be grown there, and goats thrive on the islands, but the locality is not an ideal place of resilience. The historic - '' family, which lias made heroic efforts to develop tho islands und make a home there, has at last given up the attempt, and returned to .Auckland in the Hinemoa. The lipids of the family have resided in this sea-washed wilderness < • for 23 years, and reared six children. There now remain on Sunday Island one of the group, a, man named Cameron and Lis wife, ft Maori chieftains, from Rotorua, and • th"ir baby child. While the Hinemoa was it the Kermadecs terrific volcanic eruptions were taking place at Curtis Island, which Mr. Van Stavern describes as a , veritable inferno, which he was not sorry to see -last of. Tan it be that there i" some connection between this vpheaval and the recent earthquakes which we have ' : . •een experiencing in New Zealand. I ,