In and About the Islands

Mr. James Burns, chairman of direc tors of Messrs. Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd., will be a passenger to New Guinea by the Macdhui, sailing from Sydney on May 16. He is doing the round trip.

Mr. Edward Mitty, hon. treasurer of the Melbourne branch, R.S.S.I.L.A., which is the largest branch of the League in the Southern Hemisphere, has been appointed a Justice of the Peace for the Territory of Papua. He is well known to the legal profession and carries on business as a law sta tioner, etc., at 143 Queen Street, Mel bourne.

Rev. G. S. Shinkfield, who is chair man of the Samoan District of the Methodist Missionary Society, has returned to Samoa after furlough.

Miss D. Coltheart leaves Sydney by the Macdhui on May 16 and will again take up her work among the Chinese at Rabaul. Miss Coltheart has been spending holidays in Tasmania.

Rev. L. M. Thompson arrived in Sydney, from Fiji, by the Sierra, on April 30, and has now proceeded to Victoria. Since 1916 Mr. Thompson has been specially interested in educational work among the Indians of Fiji.

Dr. and Mrs. E. G. Sayers and their two children are due to leave Sydney by the Mataram, for the Solomon Islands, on June 7. They are returning to the Missionary Hos pital at Roviana.

Dr. D. S. Davidson, anthropologist of the University of Pennsylvania, left Sydney by the Sierra on May 9, for Suva. Dr. Davidson had been doing research work in Australia on behalf of his university.

Mr. R. T. Rutledge, of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co., sailed by the last trip of the Sierra for Fiji.

Father Trillot, who has been with the Roman Catholic Mission in Fiji for 37 years, was burned to death at Nanukuola early this month. Natives saw the Presbytery afire, and on enter ing the building discovered Father in a pool of flaming oil with an overturned lamp alongside him.

Mr F. Largeau, general manager of Societe Francaise, New Hebrides, ar rived in Sydney by the Ormonde on May 6, after spending a holiday in France.