Busy Apia Harbour
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From Our Own Correspondent.
APIA, July 16.
ON Monday, July 15, Apia harbour showed quite an animated scene of activity.
The giant Monowai was at anchor alongside the cargo steamer Noumea, of the Flood Line, under the flag of Panama, loading 1000 tons of copra. Then the m.v.
John Williams, of the London Missionary Society, arrived on one of her usual cruises through the Islands. Burns, Philp and Co.’s schooner Makoa also arrived from the French Wallis Islands with a load of copra for transhipment to France.
The 35 foot yawl Cimba was in port, from Pago Pago, with Captain Taggert and another American on board. Captain Taggert. an interesting type of globetrot ter, is at home alike in Alaska as a gold prospector, on a whaling ship, or as a pearl diver in the Marquesas.
Mr. S. O. Irvine, managing director of Messrs. Parsons Bros, and Co. Pty. Ltd., Svdnev, died in Sydney on July 8. His son. Mr. D. G. Irvine, is manager of Gih Gili estate. Samarai, Papua.