A Modern Ark For New
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Guinea
FIVE New Guinea people who sailed from Brisbane for Samarai and Rabaul on the steamer “Alagna,” in mid-September, travelled on what the Brisbane “Courier Mail” called “a floating menagerie.”
The cargo included seven goats, five crates of fowls, two crates of pigs, three dogs, two cats, and two kittens.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Annan, returning to their property in Papua, took with them their black Kelpie, Toby, and their two cats, Snowy and Molotov. Their bantam rooster named Montgomery, had to suffer the indignity of travelling in a crate with other fowls.
Mrs. H. J. Cresswell, who was bound for Rabaul, where she will join her hus band on their plantation, took her Pekingese and two kittens.
Six goats and a dog were sent to Kavieng, via Rabaul, for Mrs. Stanfield, who was to travel later from Sydney.
Two crates of pigs and two crates of fowls were dropped at Samarai for the Catholic Mission. One of the goats was disembarked there for the Anglican Mission.
Only passengers not encumbered by live baggage were Mr. Frank Conroy, planter, and Mr. W. H. Parer, engineer, both of whom were bound for Rabaul.