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Small Steamer for Apia-Suva Run.
THE inter-island steamer “Ralum,” which was used by the old Melan esia Co., in New Guinea, and was subsequently taken over by Messrs.
Burns, Philp, has been in Suva lately, undergoing a general overhaul.
She left Suva on March 11, for Levuka, and is there awaiting the re turn from a northerly cruise of the auxiliary schooner “Makoa.”
It is intended to send the “Ralum” to the Gilbert Islands to maintain the ser vice hitherto carried out by the “Makoa,” while the “Makoa” is to be used to maintain a regular service be tween Apia and Suva.
It is believed that the entry of Messrs. Burns, Philp and Co. into the regular service between Samoa and Fiji is the result of the withdrawal of the “Tofua” from the Fiji—Samoa —Tonga run.