Two Natives Executed For

Murder

TWO members of the notorious Big Nambas tribe of the New Hebrides were executed, by shooting, in the prison yard at Port Vila, New Hebrides, recently, as punishment for the crime of murdering M. Mazoyer, a French planter.

It will be remembered that M. Mazoyer was recruiting on the western coast of Malekula, and his boat was lying at anchor at Tenmaru, on the night of October 26. He was attacked by natives from the shore who obviously were acting in concert with certain members of his crew. He defended himself bravely, but was overpowered and killed. The two natives who were executed took part in the murder —one with a gun and the other with a knife. An accomplice, who came from the shore with them, was sentenced to five years’ hard labour. Two natives of the crew, who profited by the crime and sold some of the planter’s bag gage, were sentenced to one year’s im prisonment.

Rev. Father E. F. Roe, of the Marist Mission, at Suva, left the Colony recently for Ireland. He will be absent from Fiji for about a yar.

MR. A. GASKIN, licensee of the Cos mopolitan Hotel in Rabaul, arrived in Australia from New Guinea in April on a short business visit.

MISS M. WHITE resigned from the Post and Telegraph Department of the Fiji Civil Service in April.

Miss Margaret Stephenson, Of

Christchurch, N.Z., has joined the staff of the Melanesian Mission’s hospital at Fauabu, Solomon Islands.

Mr. John Lancelot D’Espeissis,

who recently joined the New Guinea Administration as forestry officer, re signed in April.

MR. D. McLAUGHLAN, of the Govern ment Stores Department in Papua, arrived in Australia from Port Moresby on leave in April.