Darnley Is. Teacher Dead
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From Our Own Correspondent.
THURSDAY IS., August 21.
The Government Teacher of Darnley Island (Mr. H. Macintosh Murray) has just been buried. Instead of packing up ready to return to his work after the re cent Teachers’ Conference, he took his life.
Poor Murray was a fine fellow and had worked wonders out at Darnley in several directions. He will be sadly missed, and all T.I. residents have the deepest sym pathy for the young widow and her three little ones. He had not been himself for some time, but it was hoped that the pros pect of an immediate holiday in Australia would put him right.
Mr. Murray had been up here for about seven years, but had not been South for four years. This was too long a stretch without a complete change.
The teachers on the Torres Strait Islands have many varied duties to per form which absorb practically all their waking moments, and they are sometimes awakened during the night to attend to urgent medical cases. The periods of iso lation experienced by these gallant people will be considerably curtailed when the hostel on Thursday Island, projected by the Home Secretary for Queensland, is an actual fact.