Bodyguard For Vila Resident

A PERSON or persons at Vila, New Hebrides have been trying to do bodily and material harm to M. Max Frouin. Several times attempts have been made to set fire to his store; and recently an attempt was made to gain entrance to his dwelling at Mele; then when he was about to leave Vila for home one day he was attacked in his car. The Police Commissioner has given him a bodyguard of five militiamen.

Vila authorities are on the lookout for thieves who have been active of late.

Most daring of recent robberies took place in a building where a number of Tonkinese were indulging in their favourite gambling game. A man entered, clad in a big cloak, swept all their banknotes into his pocket and disappeared while the Tonkinese sat rigid with fear.

The Tahitian administration is offer ing a bonus for rats. Tails should be sent to Papeete whereupon payment will be made, but the inhabitants of Uturoa Island find it too much trouble to pack up the tails and post them, so they are demanding that payment should be made available on presentation of the tails locally.