A. WHITE WOMAN AMONG THE BLACK.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 14 July 1880, Page 2

A. WHITE WOMAN AMONG THE BLACK.

A few dnys fi(;o a telegram was published which, referring to the aliened rlis rovery of a white woman aiuon? the Carpentaria blacks, mentioned the probability thnt she was the wife of the ca; tain of tlio Earl of Hurdwicke, which, while bt und from Adelaide to India, was abandoned by her crew seycu (should be sereutceu)

years mm in Torres Siraiig. '! ho Mel. b'-wmio A^e has been fii!-n ;^!\ed by a rel-.s lire of i in> iiiifortniiiite wnman alludfd to wiili sompi- a ,.|i. u !:irs which will lit-ofin-teivst. T|. e v., v | n f if lir ,], v ; c .r e p. uiijc'.f '2l7ion<, D. Smith, m^trr, and sailcl rV.- :m Port A.M..i.le f., r Sy.lnev nn 7ih April, I.SG2. a[ rg Smiih, thj" wile o» the Ci.p am, bein a a p-ssen«or in the. vesxel. The second male, Robert H. Anthony, afterwards enye ih, lo!lyuin,'ae conn! of the voyage r-Loft t* y d,, e , f ( n Neweus'.le on the ]5..h May; lolled '•oals Jor .Shanyh.ii, and sailed from that port o n the Ist June, ISG2, r.nd proc/edeil on her voy.-.ye. sill went well until tinmorning of the Dili Jump, nhen the yesstruck on a reck called th-; Po.'k'ingL 'cef. Landed all hands safe from the ship, ami stayed fourteen days on shore constructing raft and repairing boat tha' was dtimnned whil? landing from the -!ii|). On the 24th Juno made sail irom the r .-ef in company with il.e captain, he beinj: in the longlv-iat with his wife, one Malay woman and eloy^n -M;t'ny men. T!u' chief mate, myse.t', and thirteen Jjah.v men were on n raft, fc'iiortlv after dark we lost sight of the captain's ii^ht. I h-id not seen or he;:vd anything of his wl.er s about.s since parting company with bin; till we wore rescued from the ua ives o New Ireland four months and a half ai'ter-wind-'by the schooner Eebefci. Vv'i:en the vessel th-.t rescued us w-is lr^din; with the natives at Carteret's Islan I they (jot some information about a boat thai had arrived there with one white woman, one white man. and a lot of black men in it. All the men were murdered, hut they did not say anything about, the woman. They nlso saw some dollars that weretaken from ihe boat, v.hicb corresponded with (he dollars the captain hud with him, marked with some particular chop O' tnaikusedby the Chinese." About nine years ago intelligence whs received of a white no'nan and child being seen among the natives at New Britain, but though attempts were made to discover the truth, nothing definite cou'd be ast-ertained. Efforts will doubtless be made to test the correctness of the present statement.