Felt On Fly River

From Our Own Correspondent.

Port Moresby, Oct. 4.

News has been received of a severe disturbance in the neighbourhood of the Oroville Camp, above D’Albert’s Junc tion, 550 miles up the Fly River, on Sep tember 20. It was so severe that it up rooted large trees near the camp, which stands on a right angle bend of the river hemmed in by dense jungle In an im mense tract of flat country, through which the Ply winds its muddy way. (Note; The Oroville Camp would be only 200 miles south-west of the Torri celli Mountains.) It is stated in an article on page 41 of this issue that no earthquake had been reported from New Guinea, but it now transpires that the District Officer at Aitape, northern New Guinea, reported by wireless to Rabaul on September 21 that the Torricelli mountain range had been subjected to such a shaking that it had been denuded of surface soil and timber, and that 18 tanks had been destroyed.

The Administrator immediately took steps to supply further tanks to this region so as to prevent a water shortage. This interesting information was not published in the Sydney newspapers.

Mr. A. W. Mortimer, a new worker for the Melanesian Mission, sailed for the Solomon Islands by the October Malaita.

He will be stationed at the mission school at Maravovo, Guadalcanal.