B.S.I. Schooners Change
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From Our Own Correspondent.
Tulagi, Oct. 12.
That enterprising B.S.I. pioneer, planter and trader, Mr. R. C. Laycock, has disposed of his well-known vessel “Gwen” to the Melanesian Mission.
The ship formerly belonged to the S.S.E.
Mission, but was almost wholly rebuilt when Mr. Laycock bought her. “Gwen” should know her way to Siota, the Melan esian headquarters, as on most trips of the “Mataram” she conveyed passengers to see the Mission —one of the most popular ex cursions on the round trip.
Mr. Laycock has purchased from Messrs.
W. R. Carpenter & Co. the “Fauro Chief,” a fine Fisher-built 21-ton schooner, whose new owner is rechristening her the “Joan,” and is proceeding to make her as spic and span as the “Gwen.”