There is a fine house and outbuildings fast going to ruin on the promontory of the first island passed as one enters the bay. This home has harbored such people as the "Squeaker" himself, and other people prominent in Solomon Island legend. A Chinaman called "Wong" also had a residence there before he was driven out by popular demand, it being discovered, according to Mr. Everett, that he was a spy of the "Squeaker", and made it his habit at "Squeaker's" request to watch the wharves of all the surrounding stations in the bay with a pair of binoculars at six in the morning, and make a note of the time at which each of the young overseers set out about their business. Mr. Everett also told of a new gentleman who took a job as overseer and had a negro trained to dress up in white clothes and a pith helmet, and at six o'clock in the morning set out with much gusto a gesture from the wharf with the boat's crew. The all-seeing "Wong" would see this figure and put the overseer down for an early start. All these things took place when the plantation was in a heyday, long since superseded. At present it is pretty well run down. Tate, of the "Awa" spent six months in the house that Everett is at present living in. This was in the time that Bull, the man that once never said a word to his plantation chum for two months and five days, was in charge of the plantation. The directors of the company have taken to quarreling amongst themselves, the coconuts