Old Trader Dead.

50 Years in French Oceania.

From Our Own Correspondent.

Papeete, Sept. 10.

AN old identity passed away on August 27 in the person of Mons.

Emile Levy, who died after a long illness at the age of 74 years.

M. Levy, who arrived in these islands from France over 50 years ago, was well-known by all the natives of the outer archipelagoes of French Oceania, where his schooners collected copra and his agents kept close track of the divers in the hunt for valuable pearls.

Notwithstanding losses through hur ricanes, shipwrecks, and other hazards inseparable from trading in such re mote places, M. Levy was successful in accumulating considerable wealth, and his successors, who are related to many of the principal families of Tahiti, fall heirs to much valuable real estate in and around Papeete and elsewhere.

M. Levy will be long remembered for his high integrity in business matters, and as a most genial and humorous raconteur of old-time happenings in the islands.

REPRESENTATIVE FOOTBALL TEAMS from Fiji (white) and Tonga (black) played matches in Suva on August 27 and 31 and September 3 Fiji won all three, making 65 points to Tonga's 8. Until the middle of last century, 80 years ago, there were fierce struggles between Tonga and Fiji; but now the contest of the football field has replaced the “final arbitrament of war." —Photo, by Caine, Sana.