THE KERMADECS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 978, 28 November 1890, Page 14

THE KERMADECS.

A FAILURE. (pep. press association.) Auckland, November 26. Arrived—Hinemoa, from Sunday Island and the Kermadec Gioup. She brings back ten settlers from Sunday Island, who report that the settlement ia a total failure, and regret ever having gone there. They were almost starving at times during the winter and subsisted principally on mutton birds. Mr Hovel, the promoter of the settlement, has returned disgusted with the Kermadecs. It is said the Bell family will also leave the island before long. One family of settlere remain. No wreokage or shipwrecked people were found on the Kermadecs. Later. The remainder of those settlers who left for Sunday Island, in the Kermadec group, by the schooner Dunedin last year, retained to Auokland by the Hinemoa to-day, with the exception of Mr and Mrs Carver and Mr and Mrs Robson, who are still at the Island. The party who have returned are Mr and Mrs Hovell. Mr and Mrs Bacon and sod, ir -A « tv r .1 A Pad.

The remainder of those settlers who left for Sunday Island, in the Kermadec group, by the schooner Dunedin last year, retained to Auokland by the Hinemoa to-day, with the exception of Mr and Mrs Carver and Mr and Mrs Robson, who are still at the Island. The party who have returned are Mr and Mrs Hovell. Mr and Mrs Bacon and sod, Messrs P. Carver, H. H. Lord, A. R»®* mussen, and J. Avent. They report that their life has been one of great hardshipAlmoet ail their crops failed them, and the vegetables whioh did grow were blown out of the ground by the gales. Captain Fairchild says it is probable that Mr John Bell, the original settlor on Suuday Island, will soon leave the Kermadeo Group and come to New Zealand.