Cyclone Near Tonga.

IT has been briefly reported that on Saturday a cyclone passed over the Tongan group, travelling towards the south-east. The centre of the storm passed about 30 mil*s north of Vavau.

There are no details. The general direction of the hurricane suggests that the principle parts of both the Fijian and Tongan groups would escape; but, if the blow was at all long-lived, it may have affected Niue, which would be right in its path.

Miss Alice Mills, B.Sc., who is a member of the New Britain staff of the Methodist Missionary Society, is at present in Sydney on furlough. On her return to New Guinea, Miss Mills will work among the Chinese women and children in Rabaul.

Rev. A. H. Scriven, of the Methodist Missionary Society, has retired from mission work after 18 years in Papua.

For most of that time, Mr. Scriven was stationed at Kiriwina.