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Capt. Svensen, of the Solomons.
From Our Own Correspondent.
TULAGI, April 30.
CAPTAIN SVEN SEN, of Brisbane, ar rived by the Mataram on the usual tour of inspection of his holding’s.
Captain Marau, as he still is called by the natives, first came to the Solomons in the dark head-hunting days of 1887, and he is one of the very, very few Solomon Islanders who have made a marked financial success of life.
He it was who first gave Levers Pacific Plantations, Ltd., their start in this group, what time he sold his hold ings to them back in 1905. Being a hard worker ever, and acting on the principle of sticking to “the devil he knew,” he reinvested a heap of his savings in further holdings, and is to day the largest individual holder we have.
Having a keen sense of humour, his tales of old-time derring-do are always most interesting, and the one which is tickling the writer at the moment is that about the straight-laced old mis sionary of Santa Cruz, who was so de terminedly honest that he would not allow his boys to bait his trawling line with other than something eatable, on the plea that white calico or a pearl hook meant deceiving the fish!