Shipping Mishaps In Eastern

Papua

From Our Own Correspondent

Pt. Moresby. Aug. 4.

/~kN July 12, heavy weather from the ” north caused havoc among the small fleet anchored off the Samara! wharf.

Capt. Markham’s ketch, the Dove, was driven on to the nearby reef and much damage was done to the hull.

On January 30 the ketch Plover, owned by Mr. L. Henderson, was lost off the north-east coast; and, in June, the Lytton. owned by J. R. Clay & Co., a ketch, was capsized by a waterspout.

Sudden squalls, storms and mild hurri canes are not unusual in the east end of the territory, but this year their intensity has been violent, although none can be compared to the hurricane of December, 1898, when 27 vessels were lost.

Messrs. C. Greathead, T. Hough, J. Mil ligan, J. Hyde, and J. Strudwick, cadets in the New Guinea Administration, com pleted a two-years’ course in anthropology at the University of Sydney in August.

They will shortly return to the Territory for active field work.

Miss Joan Waterhouse, elder daughter of Mr. L. V. Waterhouse, technical direc tor of Bulolo Gold Dredging Limited, was formally presented to the King at the Garden Party at Buckingham Palace on July 22. Another presentation made on the same occasion was that of Mrs. Ryan, daughter of the Hon. Alport Barker, of Suva.

Mr. K. Binns, of the Commonwealth National Library at Canberra, N.S.W., re turned to Sydney on August 13 by’ the Macdhui after a visit to Papua and New Guinea. He made investigations in both territories for the purpose of introducing a system, in connection with the Carnegie Library Fund, whereby New Guinea and Papua would each receive some 400 books annually for library use.