Mahe Is Out Again!
p. 72 · Read in the full issue
DURING the double Royal wedding celebrations in Nukualofa, Tonga’s most persistent gaol-breaker, Mahe, broke out of prison, for the sixth time.
He was still at large on June 25, although apparently still wearing handcuffs and being hunted by parties which have been combing the villages and plantations of Tongatabu, His most spectacular break hitherto was when he and five others left the prison, stole a boat in Nukualofa, wrecked it on a reef and finally reached the Lau Islands, Fiji, in a dug-out canoe which they, under Mahe’s instructions, had con structed. They were caught in Lau and were returned to Nukualofa in custody.
Previously, Mahe had made a similar voyage in a 14 ft. boat.
The appointment of Mr. Winfield H.
Scott to act as Consul for the United States in Suva, Fiji, with consular juris diction over the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony and the British Solomon Islands, was confirmed in the Western Pacific High Commission Gazette of May 6.
Mrs. Rankin, formerly a resident of the British Solomons, died in Sydney on June 13. She was a cousin of Mrs. Scott, who sailed by the last “Malaita,” for Rabaul, where she will tranship for her home in the Shortland Islands, BSI.