Death of an Old Soldier
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From Our Own Correspondent
Pt. Moresby, Sept. 7.
ANOTHER “old-timer” of the Terri tory passed away on August 30, at the Catholic Mission Hosnital, Yule Island —Jack Seymour, aged 73, a vet eran of the Boer War and a Farrier- Sergeant in the regiment commanded by the late Sir Hubert Murray, Lt.-Gover nor of Papua.
Seymour, who had been in Papua for over 20 years, was one of the best stock men ever seen here. Owning small pro perties at different times, he dealt chiefly with horses and mules. At one time he managed the pack-horse trans port on the mainland and inland from Yule Island.
As an old soldier. Jack Seymour was carried to his grave on Yule Island by members of the Royal Papuan Con stabulary.
Miss Silva de Simas, Staff Sister in the Fiji Nursing Service, is at present in New Zealand on leave.
Miss M. Stephenson, of the Melane sian Mission, is at present in Sydney on furlough. She has been stationed at Fauabu. on Malaita. BSI, but on the completion of her furlough will go to Lolowai, New Hebrides.