Notes From Tahiti

HRIENDS and neighbours gathered " around Mr. John Farnham ecently and complimented him warmly when, after formal trial, he /as found not guilty of a aisdemeanour charged against him q connection with a shooting in ident, several months ago. Mr. 7 arnham, awakened one night by a ioise in his room, saw a leg stick ag out from a bed, whereupon he red his revolver and wounded the itruder. The right of the house older to resist trespass is thus con rmed.

Mr. Dick Brown, of Rarotonga, wner of the Islands vessel Mahur ngi, got a surprise recently in apeete dry-dock. A bit of copper tieathing was hanging loose, and lore sheathing was removed to fleet repairs. This disclosed a large ole, and cut of the hole came six els of healthy dimensions. They mst have lived a long time in the ouble bottom: but how did they get i there? Dick Brown will have diffi ulty in telling that story in :arotonga—but it is true!

In a formal ceremony in Tahiti ecently, Captain Pommier, now of ar Tahiti, received the decoration f Chevalier de I’Etoile Noire Benin,

in recognition of his fine per formances in safely flying, across the Pacific, for a considerable period, the planes of TRAPAS.