No Longer Lonesome

Departure From Tonga of N.Z. Yachtsman From a Special Correspondent.

Nukualofa, Jan. 20.

nPHE New Zealand 16-ton yacht Ngataki left here in December for Auckland via the Kermadecs.

The owner and skipper, Mr. J. W.

Wray (formerly known as the “lone some yachtman”), said he would reach Auckland in about a fortnight’s time.

He was to call at Sunday Island, and took with him bananas, coconuts and taros to plant there.

Captain Wray arrived from Auckland six months ago, and he managed his yacht during that trip single-handed. He recently has been to Haapai, Vavau and Eua. Previously he had been to other parts of the Pacific and to Australia.

This young man is only 26 years of age.

Captain Wray was married recently at Nukualofa to Salote, a young half-caste girl, and he took her to Auckland with him on this trip. Besides Mr. and Mrs.

Wray, there were four others aboard. A large crowd of friends and people assembled on the wharf to see this small party of adventurers leaving on their long voyage.

Rev. James Egan (“Tonga”) Moulton, one of the best-known figures in the Methodist Church in Australia, died at his residence in Austinmer, N.S.W., on February 3, aged 68. He was a son of the late Dr. Moulton, a resident of Tonga, and was born in the Friendly Islands. As a Methodist minister he assisted his father for some years at Tubou College, Nukualofa.

Monsieur Plante, Police Quartermaster at Houailou, New Caledonia, has been appointed Chief of the Police Post at Bourail, replacing Monsieur Baudel, who left Noumea for France on sick leave by the January Ville d’Amiens.

Mr R. Dudgeon, a mining engineer, who has been seeking an oil field in North-west New Guinea, arrived in Syd ney by the Macdhui late in January.

Upper: The yacht "Ngataki," and the "lone yachts" in Polynesia. Lower: The party for N.Z. (leftto rigt)-Mr. L. Leger, Mrs. Flora Archer, Mrs, Wray, Captain Wraym, Mr. W Jeffs, Me. Edein Cocker.