Australian Judge For Nauru
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THREE months after the event, it was announced in September by the Australian Minister for External Territories, that a Judge and counsel would be sent from Australia to Nauru shortly to hear charges in connection with a riot which had taken place there.
One native policeman is charged with unlawfully killing two Chinese, and charges of having used unnecessary force are made against volunteer constables.
On June 7, hundreds of time-expired indentured Chinese labourers refused to embark on a ship for China and armed themselves with spears, clubs and stones.
During an attempt by local volunteers and police to quell the riot four Chinese were killed and others wounded.
Mr - A - Bentle y> in his y acht > ‘Levuka, hag won the Suva yacht Club’s open championship for the fourth year in suc cession. He designed and built the yacht himself.
Mr. Frank Mason, a mining engineer well known in the Australian Pacific Ter ritories, was in Sydney in October. He will return shortly to Misima, Eastern Papua, where he hopes to open up a promising new gold prospect, The Papal honour of Knight of St.
Gregory the Divine has been conferred on Mr * Wilbur E. Donovan, of Suva, Fiji, He has been one of the most promm ent laymen of the Roman Catholic Church in Fiji for the past 30 years. Mr.
Donovan is acting Accountant-General of Fiji and an official member of the Legis lative Council.