Death Of Dr. I. M. Bourke

1 NOTICE, in a recent English news paper, an announcement of the death of Isadore McWilliam Bourke. Dr.

Bourke spent some time in British New Guinea and was very well liked, especially by the mining fraternity of Lakekamu.

He was never in that district, but was very interested in the various diseases which the miners had to contend with, and, as a malarial fever specialist, was one of the best-known in those quarters.

He left British New Guinea for the First World War, and was in charge of a very large Tiospital in Cairo. I met him there several times.—J. NIXON WESTWOOD.

The Rev. James Edwards, of the Melanesian Mission, who was in Australia when the Japanese attacked the Solomon Islands, and was therefore unable to re turn to Melanesia, has been doing tem porary work at the Lockhart River Mission. The Bishop of Melanesia now thinks that Mr. Edwards may return to Melanesia shortly.