Society Group

Castaway On Island In

THE steamer, Port Darwin, which ar rived in Brisbane from New York on July 8, passed a man who appeared to be a castaway on an island of the Society Group.

Captain Hudson said that he was sur prised to see smoke coming from the island, which was thought to be unin habited. Through his glasses, as the ship drew nearer, he' saw a man waving his arms and piling brushwood on a fire to create more smoke. \ The weather was too unfavourable to lower a boat or to take the ship closer to the island, so a wireless message was sent to the Governor of Tahiti, 300 miles away.

The message was acknowledged.