Niuafoou’S Mail

———♦——— “Tin-Can” Delivery Suspended

THE “tin-can” mail at Niuafoou has been suspended. On the last trip of the Tofua, the mail was brought out to the steamer in a catamaran. It is not known whether this new method of transporting His Majesty’s mails will be adopted perman-

ently.

A letter from a resident of the island to the purser of the Tofua explained the reason for the departure from the famous old custom of receiving and delivering the mail by a sealed Swimming out with the mail at Niuafoou.

kerosene tin, pushed by swimming natives. A man-eating shark was holding sway around the island, and two days prior to the Tofua’s visit, it had attacked a native fisherman, who was so badly gashed that he died later from shock and loss of blood. This monster was still around and evident ly it was considered too much of a risk to subject the natives, who take the “tin-can,” to the danger of an attack. ... ===