Yacht“Yankee”On Second
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World Cruise
From Our Own Correspondent.
Apia, Apr. 20.
TN the course of a second South Seas cruise, coming from such out-of-the way places as the Tokelaus and Swain’s Island (where she was passed by the Pan-American Clipper on its way back from N.Z. to Hawaii), the American yacht Yankee, Captain I. Johnson, called at Apia on April 13 for a three days’ visit.
Apart from the owner and his wife and baby, there are a dozen young Americans on board, who work the ship and are fully-fledged members without pay of the happy family on board. On the 16th the Yankee took her departure in continu ation of the voyage to American Samoa and thence eastwards.
Miss Hilda Taylor, who has been work ing for the Methodist Mission among the Indian women and children at Lautoka arrived in Sydney from Fiji by the Mariposa recently. She is at present spending leave in New South Walej.