“Idle Hour” Leaves Papua for London
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London
From Our Own Correspondent
Port Moresby, June 24.
WIGHT LONG, the young American world tourer, arrived in Port Moresby in his ketch Idle Hour on June 16, and sailed again on the 23rd for Torres Strait, Singapore, and London. The journey from Sydney, up the Australian coast and across the Gulf of Papua, was without inci dent, and in pleasant contrast to the stress of the voyage from American Samoa to New Zealand.
The weather was very fine when he left Port Moresby; and although his engine apparently refused duty and left him adrift within 50 yards of the wharf, a light breeze got up a little later and carried him out of the harbour and out of our ken.
Like most adventurers, Mr. Long is far from “backward in coming forward.” While in Papua he wrote a letter to the King of England, asking that a seat might be re served for him in Westminster Abbey for the Coronation ceremony in May next year. He hopes to receive a reply in Singapore: and if it is favourable he will cut out contemplated calls in Egypt and Palestine, so as to make sure of being in London by the end of April.