■ , HIS PERILOUS VOYAGE.-

t It was just duwning day -on Tuesday morning (says tho Australian Star) when a. small Bailing cxaft, scarcely vis ible to the naked^eyo, stole in betweon tho Beads, and brought up in Watson's Bay, in '.Sydney > Harbour. -But it was not until* dayliglit tliaL lier identity^was revealed,, and llien tlie little stranger was. found' to be the 19-ton schooner Eclipse, 'all the way from, tho Solomon Islands. ;A. middle-aged man, with a long, flowing, beard, and in clerical garb, stood near the wheel. This was tho Roy. Father Itouillac, the master of the vessel, who_, for want of someone skilled in the scionce of navigation, had been compelled himself to take his frail little craft on a voyage of over 1700 miles. A perilous undertaking, truly, but one to which the. good qlergyman seems to have been completely equal. ■ ''But have you never studied naviga tion. Father?" inquired a friend. To which Father Bouillac. smilingly replied, "No; all the «avigation I know I pick ed up in a desultory sort of way while travelling down to the islands by the steamer Titus on her last trip from Sydney. Tho officers Buoweji me how to use tho chronometer, "aflU take observa-, tiono with the sextan^,, and in other ways were good enough 'to -instruct mo in the navigation of> a ship." > Father Eouillac, 'hbwttrer, must have bcon a particularly 'ati? ( pupil for, ns even the laymen may ,-well imagine, there are- very few seafaring people whom such superficial 'instruction would qualify to navigate a vessel 1700 miles over a course that is not without its dangers even to. tho maj riner. But; ''as Father 'Rouillao readily admitted, it was not from choico that b<3 had brought the "Eclipse to Sydney. It was not any unconquerable yearning for adventure that had induced him to embark upon his very hazardous expedi tion. "Oh, no," said the genial priest, "it was sheer necessity. I brought the vessel to Sydney because no one else would." It then transpired that after many ineffectual attempts to got someone who won willing- and -competent to take the Eclipse to Sydney for repairs Father Eouillac Tosolved to' undertake the 'task himself. , , "What was the matter with her, FatKor? Was she a hoodoo shipr" in quired someone. Hiß reverence, how ever, didn't quite seem to comprehend. 