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ROMANTIC ISLANDS. NORFOLK ISLAND,
GOVERNMENT TERMINATES AN APPOINTMENT.
PALMERSTON AND SOME OTHERS.
HALF-CASTES OF PACIFIC COL. TO LEAVE HIS ISLAND:
"
H. R. H.
"HOW MUCH HAS HAPPENED SINCE THEN!"
And
ON HIS OXFORD DAYS..
During his visit to Oxford for The devastation of Palmerston Owing to adverse remarks con Island by a sidal wave has called tained in the report of the Royal the meeting of the British Associa
for the Advancement off attention to one of the romantic Commission the Federal Govern- tion settlements in the Facific. William ment is terminating, after two Selenee, the Prince of Wales hash Marsters, British adventurer, months' lenye, Col. Leane's ap-been staying at Magdalen "College," sestled here in 1882, with his pointment as administrator of where he was in residence before: Polynesian 'wives, and its popula- Norfolk Island,»
19 The Prince fost ne time in look-
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19:14War service in France. 1916-War service in Egypt. 1947.-Vaited Italian front dur?
ing Austria's nitnek. 1018-Took his seat in the House!
of Lords. Visited Ramy 01-Rode with the Guards."",
tion to-day consists of about 100 Norfolk Island administered of their descendants, who have by New South Wales, is the prin- ing round his old rooms, and as been reduced to a most primitive cipal island of a group of three he walked down the ancient stair- condition. The great wave dos-lying in the South Pacifle 930 case be remarked: "What a lot has
royed practically everything in miles from Sydney. It was dis- happened since those days!"
How much has happened to the the island and carried away even covered by Captain Cook in 1774, their fishing lines, and hooks, so It has an area of 10 square miles. Prince since his Oxford days may that they had to catch fish with and a population of a few hun-be seen from the following:- their hands, and, until assistance dreds. arrived, supplement their meagre Mr. Bruce, the Australian fare with fullen coconuts.
Prime Minister, announced last! The nearest paralel to Palmers-January, that'h Royal Commission tom, in the Pacific, is probably had been appointed to investigate Pitcairn, the oldest British colony the administration of the island in the Southern hemisphere after and the complaints of the re- Sydney and Norfolk Island. Its idents there, states the "Evening - inhabitants are descendants of News." the mutineers of the Bounty, whe
Mentioned 6 Times. settled there in 1790, taking with Colonel E. Leane, who was them six Polynesian men and a appointed. Administrator andi dozen women, Twice attemptal Chief Magistrate of the island have been made to drag them two years ago, is well known in away from the island In 1831 London. He served as an assist-! hey were taken to Tahiti, but the ant director of Ordnance Services change was not liked and they at the Australian Imperial Force all went back. A quarter of Headquarters in 1916-1317, and century afterwards Sir Williamat the Armistice was brought Denison. then Premier of New back to London from France to South Wales, sent the Moray take part in the demobilisation shire, which removed all the in- and repatriation of the Austra- habitants, then 104, Norfolk |·lian Army, "
their entry into London for roview by the King.! Visited Canada un the United Stateн. Separato
home at St. James's Palace..
1920-Tour to Australia. 1921-22-Tour, to India an
Japan...
1028.-Visited Cavada.
1925. Tour to Africa and South
'America.".
AT THE STAR..
"TURN TO THE RIGHT."
Island, the one-time "Hell of the Colonel Leane, who is 59, and Pacific, which had been left Australian born, has held à com- Lempty by the removal of the con-Fuasion for 36 years. In the!
vlets. Though Norfolk Island South African War he won five "Turn to the Right." proved a salted them better than Tahiti clasps to his war medals and was source of wholesome delight as some of them grew homesick and mentioned in despatches. In a play, and in its screen version returned, and the descendants of France he was awarded the Bel- it proves fair even to exceed the the original Pitcairpers are now gian Croix de Guerre and was popularity which it recorded" on divided between these two lonely mentioned in despatches six the stage. It figures on the pro- Jalands, over 3,000 miles Apart. times.
gramme at the Star Theatre from
hey still speak among them-i Norfolk Island, once a penal to-day till Saturday. jaelves a patois derived in the settlement, is peopled principally Rex Ingram, the British direc
main from the language of the by the descendants of the mutin-tor who won fame through his Tahitian women whom theeers of the Bounty. Before the creations of "The Four Horsemen mutineers took to the island, and island was taken over by Austra of the Apocalypse" and "The most of them also speak English lia in 1914 it was governed by Conquering Power, has scored fairly well. Some years ago they eklera, working with a local House again in this picture. jadepted the religion, of the of Commons, in which every It is the story of a country
Seventh Day Adventists, whojadult had a seat.
youth who unjustly serves a pri- have a missionary there. There When a distinguished Colonial son sentence. While there he be- is no postal system. The islanders official visited the island some comes acquainted with two crooks. hand their letters to gassing years ago 12 young women were When freed he determines, to go tships), often leaving it to the off-appointed as his cooks, 12 as his back home and arrives "to And cers or passengers to pay the housemaids, and 12 as his par-that the village skin-flint is ¡postage:
tour-maids. A Company Island. Some of the Pacific islands had
Pacific Islands"
is about to foreclose the mort-!
Islanders' Petition. Fgage. With the aid of his two Last year the islanders, in a crock puls a way is found to beat a very large native population petition to the Government, com-out the miser, while the influence the old days, but disease has deci-plained that in the last ten years of the trusting, religious mother mated them. Amongst the few $240.000 was spent by the Govern serves to turn the two crooks to hundreds that now for the most ment, chiefly on salaries, although the right and head them on a new part form their population there the island was undeveloped and road of love and happiness are often to be found one or two the inhabitants were leaving it. Alice Terry, the heroine in whites, and sometimes five or six. Prosperity was a thing of the "The Four Horsemen" and "The There is one island Malden past. This petition was refused Conquering Power," again demon- peopled solely by the employees of by the Minister for Home and strates her dramatic power as the the Maiden Island Proprietary Territories.
winsome sweetheart of the boy Company. whose duty It s to,
The islanders complained that for whom she had waited so long. collect guano and prepare it for the governor was master of the Jacked Mulhall plays the boy with shipment. They live in wooden island chief magistrate, and a sympathy and understanding. houses which are described jalaw unto himself." They wanted Harry. Myres and George Cooper Steward's "Handwork of the A man. to be appointed with are the two crooks who keep the as very roomy knowledge of judicial procedure. comedy moving briskly. Edward and comfortable. Everything re- Other demands they made were Connelly paints the old skinflint quired for their use is imported. that J.Ps should be appointed deacon in a way that leaves no- The island swarms with wher cats, and that the mail service should thing to be desired. Others in the and there are some wild pigs and be improved.
cast are Lydia Knott, Betty Allen. goats, the descendants of animals In the Australian Parliament Margaret Loomis, William Blet- turned loose some years ago. * last year the islanders were des-cher, Eric Mayne and Räy
"The Rosses of Cocos. cribed as "a lotus-cating people.Ripley. Romantic settlements in far dis-becoming lackadaisical because their tant places are not, of course, con- they had no outlet for fined to the Pacific. A well-abilities. known case is that of the Cocos and Keeling Islands, in the Indian Ocean. There for more than a century the Clunies-Ross family have lived and rated among a population which has never num- bered more than a few hundred, including a score of Europeans.
In 1825 John Clunies Ross land- ed in the islands with Alexander Hare. the son of a London watch-
maker, whose desire it was to" Hive the. Hfe of an Oriental monarch. Hare took with him his harem and petty Court; Ross was accompanied by his family. The entire company, numbered 175, including 20 whites. The joint adventure was not success- ful, the motives of the two men being entirely different; but after Hare retired to die in Singapore, his courtiers, musicians, harem,] and slaves having vanished, Rosa laid clalm to the whole group of islands, which he ruled for 27 years till his death in 1854.
His son, John George, succeed- ed him as chief of the Cocos, and in his time the islands were first proclaimed British territory, their chief being appointed Gov- Barbara Tough, former maid in ernor He married one of the the home of the Rov. and Mrs. Islanders, a Malay of Royal Solo rested Mra. Hall for the murder of Edward Hall, told investigators who blood, and their six sons all re- Hall and Elsanork Mills that she did ceived their education in Scotland. nut telephone the accused woman or The eldest, George, was studying the night of the murder that the engineering in Glasgow when he couple were strolling down "lovers'
inne" at New Brunswick, was recalled to help his father in
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