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REV. R. H. RICKARD, a former Methodist missionary in the Pacific Islands, died at his home in Wollstone craft, Sydney, on March 21, at the age of 79. He was one of the first workers in New Britain, having arrived there shortly after his ordination in 1882.
He compiled the first dictionary of the native language and translated sec tions of the New Testament into the native tongue. His translations have been the basis of the work of many subsequent missionaries. Mr. Rickard still retained a considerable interest in South Seas missionary work after he returned to Australia from Rabaul to take over a parish.
Monsieur Louis Bouvier, a French traveller and explorer, who for nine years has been seeing the world on foot, arrived at Port Moresby, Papua, early in March. He left later in the month for New Guinea to visit the Morobe Goldfield. Monsieur Bouvier will return to France in a few months, after first making his way through Polynesia.