Mr. Fred Rebell
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rpHE Brache family, of the Channel X Islands, with Mr. Fred Rebell, as navigator, arrived in Sydney in the middle of December, from Fiji, in an old weatherbeaten yawl, named “Reine d’Arvor”, which had been their home for 21 years. The party had made a leisurely voyage across the Pacific from Panama, and had called at the Marquesas, Tahiti, Samoa and Suva. They were 39 days be tween Suva and Sydney.
The Brache family were at once ad mitted to Australia, where they propose to settle down, but, as Mr. Rebell had left Australia without any papers or pass port whatever, when he took his un orthodox departure from Sydney for Suva in a small boat a few years ago, he was not immediately admitted by the authorities. However, he was allowed to become an Australian again after spend ing several days in Sydney harbour, cooped up in the little boat. His recent book on his small boat voyage from Sydney across the Pacific has received an excellent press, and should be a finan cial success.