Bonin Islands  Source  Whalesite

      H.M.S. Curlew will proceed on a cruise southward in the course of the next few days.

      A Government Commissioner to the Bonin Islands will be despatched by the Lighthouse steamer Meiji Maru on the 21st instant. Negotiations having been set on foot with regard to making one of these islands a station for the projected Americo-China sub-marine telegraph cable, it is intended, a native newspaper states, to hold some preliminary survey for the purpose. With this view the Meiji Maru proceeds thither. She will be absent probably for some six weeks.

      In its issue of last night the Japan Gazette deliberately accuses us of a theft from its columns, on the ground that a report which itself published in regard to the object of a steamer now being despatched to the Bonin Islands, appears also in our own issue of yesterday. The fact is accounted for in two words. The information probably came in both cases from one source. Our own was taken from one of the native papers, and was confirmed in part by intelligence received through private sources.

"[H.M.S. Curlew will proceed on a cruise southward . . .]"
      The Japan Weekly Mail. A Political, Commercial, and Literary Journal.
Vol. VI, No. 47. (November 20, 1875).
p.1032.

Bonin Islands  Source  Whalesite