“Bounty” Descendant to Visit

Australia

A DESCENDANT of Eletcher Christian, leader of the Bounty mutineers, Mr.

Fred Christian, will leave Pitcairn Island late in August on a visit to Australia.

As an elder of the S.D.A. Church on Pit cairn. Mr. Christian has been invited to attend the Australasian Conference of Seventh Day Adventists, to begin in Mel bourne on August 31 and continue for a fortnight.

Early in July a passage order was posted from Sydney, to enable him to join ships of any line passing close to the island.

Pitcairn has a small wireless transmitter, and it is expected that this will be used in an endeavour to divert the first passing vessel after the order is received.

Mr. Christian has never before been near big cities in his life. He once made a trip to Tahiti, but his travels, otherwise have been in open boats chiefly to the uninhabited Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands. Pitcairn Islanders make occa sional and sometimes perilous journeys to those islands to gather coconuts and firewood.

The liner he may catch probably will terminate in Auckland, N.Z., and he will have to join the first vessel sailing from there for Australia.

Dr. Frances Harding, of the Seventh Day Adventist mission, returned to Syd ney by the July Monterey after a six weeks’ tour of Fiji. To report on the health of natives at S.D.A. mission sta tions in the Colony, she made a 1000 miles voyage through the group in a 48ft. boat. Dr. Harding found the natives’ health generally to be good, but many had very poor teeth.

Mr.Ragnar A. Lindahl, well-known as Swedish Consul at Rabaul, T.N.G. sends the accompanying photograph from Stock holm, Sweden, with the laconic statement: “Le Pou de Ciel—the Flying Flea.

Made by myself and flown, too.”