Notes

Torres Strait Personal

From Our Own Correspondent.

Thursday Is., April 8.

MR. S. WEST NEWMAN, manager of the Port Kennedy Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., has left for England on business. He hopes to return to Thursday Is. by September, leaving his small son with relatives in New Zea land before he returns.

Mr. Norman Taylor, also of the “P.K.” has returned to Townsville until local conditions im prove.

Alderman D. Farquhar, of Messrs. Farquhar’s Pty. Ltd., has left on a business visit South.

The Queensland State Government has trans ferred Capt. J. Robertson from Rockhampton to T.I., as harbour master, replacing Capt. Smibert, who has gone to Brisbane for the Brisbane River Pilot Service.

Mr. W. Cadzow, manager of Wyben Pearling Co., has returned from furlough in Australia.

Mrs. Cowling, of New Guinea, has sent her only daughter, Shalott, across to T.I. to attend the State School. She is boarding with Mrs. Herring.

Mrs. and Mrs. W. Miller have left the service of the Mapoon Presbyterian Mission and gone back to their home in Queensland. For many years Mr. Miller was Government Teacher on Mabuiag and Darnley Islands in the Torres Strait.

It is feared that we are soon to lose Mr. Harry Finter, of the State School, as applications have been called to relieve him on account of his continued ill-health.

Cannibalism is not yet quite extinct in these parts. There is a native in custody who was found guilty of this horrible crime on the Cape York Peninsula. Two out of three white men were similarly treated in the Western Division of Papua some time ago, soon after they landed from their ketch.