"Drunk as a Tourist"
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From Our Own Correspondent
Noumea, Nov. 11.
IHE liner Orion reached Noumea . on November 8 on a cruise. Fine weather was experienced and le tourists made a determined fort to enjoy themselves. A con derable number of male tourists bibed, rather unwisely, of Noumea’s entiful and varied liquor supply, tiey provided splendid explana ms for those curious about the Dumean expression: “Drunk as a jurist,” which is the local adapta m of the French saying: “Drunk a Pole.”
An innovation to the normal Syd y-Noumea cruise route was intro iced this year. Instead of going t the Boulari Pass, and then head- S direct for Australia, the Orion n down the south coast, up the st coast as far as Thio, out rough the pass of that port and en down around the He of Pines route to Sydney. The extension :ludes some of the most beautiful astal scenery in New Caledonian iters.