ANTIPODES ISLAND DEPOT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14279, 30 July 1908, Page 5

ANTIPODES ISLAND DEPOT

" STORES AND CLOTHING. (From Our Owk Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, July 29. In reply to Mr Lauronson, tho Hon. Mr Millar stated to-day thai, at Hie time of tJio wreck of the l'elix Faure there was a good supply of provisions, clothing, blankets, boots, tookuig utensils, matches, fishhooks, fishing lines, medicines, etc., in the depot on Antipodes Island. Captain Bollons found tho things in good order. The depot contained perfectly dry bunks, the floor being covered with dry grass. Besides the above stores, Captain Bollons also found the following things, which had been left at tho depot by tho French o.w:-Sj.x boxes matches, 11 tins oroserved meat, 2 tins proserved albatross, tt quantity of secondHand serviceable clothin?, and several fish Uptaui Bollons placed fhe new stores •shown by the undermentioned list, in tbo depot:-Twelve woollen fiinglcts, 12 pairs underpants, 12 woollen shirts. 12 pairs woollen socks, 12 men's st-Tong suits 12 pairs boots (watertight bluchers), ■lOOlb'eood beef dripping, 12ewt cabin broad (well naked), * cases preserved meat (beef and mutton in 41b tins), 251b tea, 561b s.Rir, I shovel, 2 dozen tin boxes matches (250's) 61b tobacco, 12 cherrywood pipes, 1 pint oil, 1 packet surgical needles 1 pint carbolic oil, silk for sewing wounds, 1W pills (opening), 1 jar zinc ointment. a supply of lint and wadding, 6 fishing lines toeing 3 liapuka and 3 cod linos), 3 dozen assorted fishhooks, 2 sheath knives. 1 pair scissors, 101b assorted wire nails, 1 kettle, i fryingpan, 141b yellow soap, 2 skeins twine. 1 ball lamp wick, 1 packet needles, "reals strong white cotton, 4 packets winte tape, 1 seaming palm, 6 sail needle 1 camp oven.