Death of Mr. C. Theodore

Nibel.

From Our Own Correspondent.

Pt. Moresby, May 24.

THE death occurred at Pt. Moresby Hospital on May 5 of Mr. C. Theo dore Nibel, a resident of the island of Malu Kawa off the south-west coast of Papua.

The late Mr. Nibel, who had suffered a long illness, was a well-known and interesting identity of Western Papua.

Previous to his settlement in the ter ritory he had been stationed at Saibai, a Torres Strait island, where he was at tached to the Aboriginal Education De partment of Northern Queensland for eleven years.

A man of many parts, Mr. Nibel tried his hand at tea planting in his youth, and later read law and finally was a school teacher. Born at Darjeeling, India, of missionary parents, he came to Australia in 1882 at the age of twenty seven. He lived in Victoria and New South Wales, and, on the report of gold at Kalgoorlie, crossed to the West. After a brief visit to Calcutta he again tried his luck in various States in Australia and eventually settled in Papua.

Mr. Nibel had hoped to end his days in India on the magnificent heights of

his birthplace—Darjeeling.

Rev. K. Sanders, of Lord Howe Is land, is at present in Sydney on vaca tion.