New Southern Cross.
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En Route to Solomons.
Messrs. Cammell, Laird & Co., Ltd., launched at Birkenhead, England, on September 4, the Melanesian Mission’s new steamer “Southern Cross,” and it was to sail for the Solomon Islands on September 16, under the command of Captain Reginald Bray.
This, presumably, will be “Southern Cross VII.,” “Southern Cross VI.” was wrecked on the coast of Aneityum, New Hebrides, on November 2, 1932, while on her maiden voyage under the com mand of Captain Stanton, She has been very quickly replaced.