THE S.S. STELLA’S VISIT TO THE ISLANDS.
The following telegram has been received by the Secretary Marine Department from Captain W. J. Gray, of the s.s. Stella : Port Chalmers, 25th March, 1887. Secretary, Marine Department, Wellington. Arrived this morning from the Antipodes and Bounty Islands. The stores and storehouse on Antipodes Island all safe and in good order. No one about, nor did we see any vessel on the way out. Stores and store-house on Bounty Island washed away. We were on shore for some hours before we found out what could have become of the house. At last we found some of the biscuit tins, iron roofing, and other things, broken and smashed up and driven into the cracks of the rocks. The water-cask was also broken. Pieces of the house are found broken into matchwood and strewed all over the island. To look at the things it must have been some time back. The only thing not broken was one case sundries. Those we took nearly to the top of the island, and put some stones and pieces of timber round them.— W. J. Gray.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 787, 1 April 1887, Page 24
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