Mission Sister Drowned

From Our Own Correspondent.

Thursday Is., Nov. 8.

SISTER MARIETTA, of the Sacred Heart Convent. Thursday Island, was drowned near Hammond Island, in Torres Strait, at the end of October.

Together with Sister Baptiste and Mrs.

Jacobsen, she was being rowed from Hammond Island to a launch. Heavy seas capsized the dinghy, throwing the party into the sea. Sister Marietta was drown ed, her body being found some time later.

The two other women were rescued and taken to Torres Strait Hospital, where after several days’ treatment they re covered.

Captain Georges Virolle, who has been living on a plantation in Tahiti for 10 months, arrived in Sydney on No vember 10 by the “Pierre Loti”, en route to China.