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Pleasure Yacht at Rabaul.

From Our Own Correspondent.

Rabaul, July 1.

CROSSING the Atlantic from Halifax to Gibraltar in thirty days, experi encing some rough weather, Captain L. M. Wilson, a Canadian journalist and a son of Senator Wilson, of Montreal, steered his yacht, the “Quebec Ptarma gen” through the Mediterranean to Port Said.

Reaching Aden, the vessel made the record trip to Batavia direct in 36 days and, after that voyage, the owner captain, with his crew of amateur yachtsmen, wandered leisurely amongst the Spice Islands, travelling as far north as Zamboanga in the Phillipines, then cruising south to Dutch New Guinea, and eventually reaching Rabaul after a tedious journey of being becalmed at one time and then experiencing a nasty south-easter.

Captain Wilson is remaining in Rabaul for a week or so in order to overhaul the vessel and to engage fresh members for his crew to replace those who de parted for the East on the “Nellore” last week. The captain-owner is a most in teresting character, having spent an eventful period in China as the repre sentative of an American Press Associa tion during the 1927 disturbances in the East.

The vessel is comfortably fitted out as a typical pleasure craft; it is forty-five tons and has a standard Diesel engine installed. It was previously owned by a chased by Captain Wilson during the depression period at a bargain price.

From here the yacht will proceed to Honolulu, via the Gilberts and eventu ally San Francisco will be her destina tion.