Japanese Pearlers Find Rich
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Shell Patch
LATEST reports from Darwin say that Japanese pearlers found a rich patch of pearl shell inside territorial limits, about 300 miles east of Darwin, where charts show only eleven fathoms of water.
So many Japanese have bought charts of territory waters that a temporary short age exists. The Japanese say that when they have cleaned out the present patch they will visit the West Australian coasts to get shell there.
Mr. J. B. Wright, of New Zealand, ar rived at Apia, Samoa, by the Maui Pom are on October 15 to relieve Mr. W. H.
Roberts, Treasury Department Clerk, who will leave the Territory in December.
His Lordship Bishop Leonard S. Kemp thorne (Bishop in Polynesia) arrived in Western Samoa from Fiji on a visit to the Anglican diocese in Apia by the steamer Antigone in October.