THE MACQUARIE ISLANDS.
(per press association.) Invercargill, January 2. The schooner Awarua arrived yesterday from the Macquarie Islands after a moat successful trip, having been away only 33 days. The boiler and digester for extracting oil from seals and penguins was taken to the Island, and the necessary building erected ; the plant being left in the charge of a couple of men. Two men, who alleged that they refused to leave the Hand by the Janet Ramsay, returned by the Awarua. They state that they jumped out of the boat because it was unseaworthy, and that their action saved the other men from the risk of drowning. The statement of Captain Lew, of the Janet Ramsay, that the Awarua’s hunting party had done little good is disproved by the faot that the vessel is full of sea elephant oil, having 35 tuns aboard, beside a quantity of bonee. The trip was made in seven days eaoh way. On the passage home the ship Collingwood, from Melbourne to London, was spoken midway between the Auckland Islands and the Snares. About -500 miles south-west of Auckland a large iron buoy was passed adrift.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 932, 10 January 1890, Page 26
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191THE MACQUARIE ISLANDS. New Zealand Mail, Issue 932, 10 January 1890, Page 26
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