proved effectively the superiority of the native police in concluding such matters. The white forces as well as the forces from the Adelaide were at all times unable to penetrate the bush. The native police not only penetrated the bush but actually sleuthed down a number of the murderers, captured them and brought them home. The white volunteers cooperated with the forces from the Adelaide in poisoning the native gardens, destroying the villages with mill bombs, and generally ravaging and pillaging everything they could lay their hands on. Probability of a sympathetic uprising of the Malaita labor on the plantations of the Solomons is very slight. A few gestures have been made here and there, but the affair is regarded as closed. Of all the people I have met so far in the Solomons the most pleasant are Mr. and Mrs. Miller, the District Officer of Faisi and his wife. They are a true blue English couple, gentle, cultured, and extremely well bred. In our official relations with him as well as in a more social evening's visit with him and his wife, he proved to be a memorable oasis in the desert of bad-mannered and mediocre people that is the curse of the Solomons. His father, grandfather, and great grandfather were all in the British Civil Service, and he is himself a mellowed in the wood, 180 proof product of the service he is pledged. His knowledge and interest in the members of the service at other places in the world is