Stumbled in Dark, Killed

Herself

From Our Own Correspondent APIA, Sept. 21. •TIIE story of a sad accident lies be * hind the death of a 12-year-old Samoan girl, Tufa, at Siufaga village, Savaii, on September 2, She and her brother had been out fish ing in a canoe all the afternoon, and re turned at dusk with the catch. The boy sent his sister to their family fale a few hundred yards away to fetch a knife, so that he could cut up the fish- She did not return.

Becoming impatient, the boy was him self going to their fale when he came upon his sister lying face downwards on the sand, close to the beach. He tried unsuccessfully to revive her, and then carried the body home, where it was. dis covered that she had a knife stab under the left breast.

Apparently, she had been hurrying in the dark and fallen. The blade of the poiqranis pnq pun ‘punq Jaq ui ajiuq aqn -jaSSnp \\vms u qiiAV aouno aqi o; qanq knife had pierced her heart, killing her instantly.

Mr. A. C. Lumley, a well-known pearl buyer who has been in the pearl business in the Trobriand Islands, Eastern Papua, for over 30 years, returned to the Ter ritory by the Macdhui early in October after a visit to Melbourne.