Stories Of The Islands
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THOMAS IDWAL PARRY, 47, described as a “master mariner, of Sydney,” was committed for sentence in Lunceston on August 23, for false etences. He obtained £7lO, on stories nnected with the Pacific Islands.
He got £BO from Mrs. Kathleen Day md, of New Guinea, by saying he had [)0 coming from Sydney; £5BO from iwen, a Launceston builder, by saying owned a schooner, with which he was inging war equipment from the Solo ms; and £5O from Charles Willes by liming he and friends had found oil New Guinea.