Notes From Samarai

TifRS. A. CRIDLAND, wife of the Resi dent Magistrate at Cape Nelson, Papua, has been very ill with fever.

It is said that nearly everyone who has been through a course of the anti malaria drug Atebrin is having the same trouble —very bad fever. Atebrin so thoroughly clears the system of fever, that when one gets it again it is like a first attack.

When the “Laurabada” arrived at Port Nelson, Mrs. Cridland had the pleasure of entertaining Sir Hubert Murray, Miss Meg Bunting, Mr. and Mrs. Grist, Cecil Abel, from Kwato, Mr. Len Murray, and an English member of Parliament.

Between five and ten ounces of gold are being won daily by Mr. Hoile from sluicing operations on the lower Edie Alluvials lease in New Guinea, held under option by Golden Terraces (New Guinea) Syndicate, N.L. Mr. Hoile is employing ordinary boxing methods and is being assisted by a few natives.

Messrs. Smeaton and Graham have sold out their property at Sandy Creek, New Guinea, and have gone to Tufi, near the Musa River, in Eastern Papua.