Missing Vessel Found

Safe

TAHITI, August 4.

THE Tahitian Government-owned yacht, Nuuhiva, (yawl-rigged, of 15 tons, and formerly the American yacht, Mana Nahra) has been found anchored in the lagoon of Bellinghausen Island (between Tahiti and the Northern Cooks). She left Papeete on May 10, for the Marquesas Islands, where she was to carry on a service, and has since been posted missing.

She is being towed from Bellinghausen to Uturoa, in Raiatea, All on board are well.

Schooner Wrecked

Messrs, mervin brothers were advised on July 19 that their 200tons trading schooner, Benicia, had been wrecked in a gale on the reef north east of the island of Rangiroa. No lives were lost.

Joeli Ravai, of Fiji, who has gone to the United Kingdom as a guest of the British Council, has reached London. He was met on arrival by Ratu Mara, who is at Oxford University, and by Mr. G. K.

Roth, who is on leave in the United King dom.