WOMAN'S LONG SWIM.
EATMENT OF A STOWAWAY. • MISSION STEAMER INCIDENT. ftfBOM Ottt own CORRESPONDENT.] ArrcTAKi (Cook Islands), November 8. .'< ' vfaEN the London Missionary Society's ' ,J 'ht John Williams left here on October 13 after proceeding eight or ten miles' •I' was. discovered that a stowaway (a '"alive woman) was on board, who wished ! :visit her friends at Rarotonga, 140 -afles distant.-' There being a very skin|ftnt rule against carrying passengers, the tmer put back, and it is alleged put . woman into the sea outside the reef, five miles from the mainland. The wo- • ■ had to swim over the breakers on to !L reef, and wade over broken coral for (0m distance, when she was discovered j, y a fishing canoe, and brought" safe to the shore Much indignation is express„j by the natives, pastors, deacons, and everyone else here at the alleged action loi'i those aboard the mission steamer.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14221, 18 November 1909, Page 5
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