Epidemic In Samarai

Prom Our Own Correspondent.

Samarai, June 25.

DYSENTERY, which has been preva lent here for some time past, now shows signs of abating, but during the epidemic a number of natives have died. Some of the Europeans caught the disease, also, and were isolated in the local hospital. Part of the island was in quarantine and, being a small place, residents were inconvenienced by the restriction, especially when the na tive hospital could have been shifted for the time being onto another island, not far away, and thus minimise the risk of infection. However, with good weather, the disease is gradually dying out.

Count von Luckner’s yacht, “Seeteu fel”, sailed from Sydney to Cairns on July 5, on the next stage of her voy age around the world.