Lieutenant-Governor

Visits Western Papua

From Our Own Correspondent.

Pt. Moresby .March 2.

HIS Excellency Sir Hubert Murray, K.C.M.G., Lieutenant-Governor of Papua, accompanied by the Government Secretary, the Official Secretary, and the Hons. H. W. Champion and H. L. Murray, left Port Moresby by the “Laurabada” on February 20, on an official visit to the western stations of the Territory, and those in the Gulf and Central Division, west of Port Moresby.

His Excellency held sittings of the Cen tral Court at stations where criminal cases were awaiting trial.

The “Laurabada” returned to port on February 28.

Rev. F. J. Lewis, Chairman of the Methodist Mission Society, New Guinea, arrived in Sydney by the Macdhui on January 21. He praised the work of the native mission teachers who are out among the tribes in uncontrolled areas.

At present, said Mr. Lewis, there are about 350 native missionaries doing evan gelistic work in such areas.

A recent photograph of Mrs. Bowring, one of the most popular women on the New Guinea goldfields. Mrs. Bowring went to Edie Creek when it was simply an unsightly collection of shacks (it is now beginning to look like an orderly township) and took charge of the mess-room there. She has now established a modern guest-house. She is famous for her kindness and hospitality; and scores of young Australians, transported suddenly from city comforts to this wild, rain-soaked place on the top of the New Guinea mountains, include her name in their prayers o’ nights.