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...10.80 a.m. MARCH 17.

Antenor

SOLICITOR AMONG THE PAPUANS.

The Adventures of Mr. Laycock.

BIRD OF PARADISE.

THE

CHINA MAIL..

of shaly atons which they nibble like chocolato. He will eat a rat or bird three days dead and de- composing, after giving it a turn over a charcoal fire to brown its outside.

Scarcity of Food

"The provision of sufflelent food must be a constant anxiety for them, and hunger A constant enemy,"

He himself had little doubt that the shortage of other food 'must have been one of the main reasons for their cannibaliem.

and

The adventures of Mr. John Lay- cock, the well-known advocate and

There were only about a dozen solicitor of Singapore, and until recently a member of the Munici-white men along the whole coas

of Northern New Guinea pal Commission, along the wild northern coast cf New Guinen last any of these were missionaries.

Summing up his impressions of Summer, were interestingly tol by this wild corner of the globe Mr. himself to the Singapore Rotary Laycock anid: There are no roads Club at their weekly tiffin meeting in Dutch New Guinea but there are at Raffles Hotel.

a few tracks it for horses; there of birds of The exportation

are of course no motor cars. Ex- paradise, cannibals, and an ac- count of Papuin wonder at a white cept for a few tiny plantations on the coast, the islands and near man bathing, were a few of the whole country is jungle and no varied points touched upon by the attempt is being made to develop

who speaker

considered

It. The country in fact gives ono Papua, "had beaton civilisation."

the feeling that here civilisation is "At Manokwari and inter at

definitely defeated. Papua has Humboldts Hay, Hollandia, we

beaten civilisation. Except that took on board numbers of casso the Dutch Government, preserve waries and tree kangaroos said the order and that the missionaries

addrese. his during speaker

have converted a number of tho of

natives on the coast, Papua must "These are ordinary articles commerce in those regione, Par in all essentials be in

the same of rats, cockatoos and lories

condition as it was 200 years ago. various kinds go without saying

Describing a swim which he took of course. Even a few of the raret

that

birds of paradise were smuggled at Bosnick on the island of Wiak,

on board.

are

in the Pacific. Ocean 'north of

the

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221

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614

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"As you know, the export of Geelvink Bay on the return journey Copper Cash birds of paradise and their skins to Singapore, Mr. Laycock said:

I had a swim from the boat and is now prohibited but some

all the village crowded out to seo I have no sym the remarkable sight of smuggled out.

a white pathy with this prohibition, which

When after the man swimming. seems to me sentimentality carried awim I pulled myself into to excess. The female bird of

motor boat they gave the Papuan paradise never carries any plum- age in any of the varietica I have equivalent of a loud cheer and a The male bird is the only moved away they threw at us all hearty laugh and as the boat plumage bird and he does not get the orchids which I had declined his plumage until he is between

to buy. Bosnik is the one Papuan four and five years old

geen.

"It therefore did no harm what-place of which I preserve a happy

ever to kill off a whole lot of the old male birds and it may in fact have strengthened the stock. There was no nossible question of exterminating the species 18 no of killing the one would dream female or the young males; they are absolutely insignificant as any of you can see at Mr. Basapah's Zoo.

recollection."

FOR DEMOCRACY.

WHAT IS BEING DONE IN N.W. FRONTIER PROVINCE.

New Delhi, Jan. 31.

observe

A communique by the North- West Frontier Province adminis- Paralysing Blow To Trade.

tration, the text of which has The stoppage of this trade has been issued to the Press, states been a paralysing blow to Dutch that though public attention is át The Dutch impose present focussed on the larger New Guinea. an export customs duty on every aspect of popular representation thing going out of the country and in legislative bodies, it is, never- a custom officer goes round withtheless, interesting to the ship. On my trip he collected the advance towards democratic about Fl.1,000. Five or alx years control which is taking place in ago, in the heyday of the paradise the North-West Frontier Pro- bird trade, he used to collect vince in the constitution of muni- F112,000 or more. This will give cipalities and district boards. you an idea of what that trade At Hol- meant to New Guinea. landia where formerly there were about twenty Chinese kedais there are now about four.

"I am in favour of being kind

to our feathered friends but not at the cost of ruling the entire coun- 5p.mtry. This curious state of mind or

(Due Marseilles April 15) G.P.O. Registration Letters 4.30 pa

K.P.O.

Registration Letters

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THURSDAY, Manila, Australia & New Zealand

via Thursday Island,.

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MARCH 20.

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(Due. Thursday Island March 30)

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10.30

Letters MARCH 21.

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It has been decided to introduce a 50 per cent. elective element into the personnel of these bodies, and, already, much spade work has been done to make the decl-

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Electoral Rolls,

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4.85 25/32

84.85%

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Los.......TH.

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101

10 tast dividend for 1986.......

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112 bx. 2-1 on preferred)

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"WITCH-DOCTOR" ARRESTED.

In three municipalities tenta- Suffering from recurrent attacks 6 p.m the part of enthusiaste is still tive electoral rolls have been com- of fever and hysteria, a young of Milazzo, in a native told pleted, and the formation of con- wemaa, strong in the land. I was while there that the Government stituencies is in progress while, Sleily, was induced to ignore the of the Straits Settlements had re-in the remainder, including Hoti medical clinic established in her H. K. Kopes........ cently been making representations Marden, which has recently been village and to submit herself in to the Government of the N.E.I. raised to the status of a muni- stead to the ministrations of an.old asking them to tighten up the pro- cipality and district board, elec-hag believed to have occult relations a.m.hibition and to prevent smuggling tion rules, which prescribe fran- with the Devil.

As a cure the "witch," after in out of birds; which action was chise and membership qualifica- taken (as I found out) at the tions and the procedure to be ob- cantations and the boiling up of instance of a well-known Singa- served in the conduct of elections, various revolting brews, thrust a will be notified in the North-West large needle Into the right foot of pore gentleman.

Province Gazette of the girl. As the fever continued so "It must give him and those of Frontier his kidney great satisfaction to re- January 30, 1981, and will, no was the treatment augmented, until flect on the number of decent doubt, receive the close attention no less than 64 needles had been traders whom they have deprived they deserve at the hands of pros- wholly thrust into various parts of of a living to satisfy their humani-pective candidates and others in her leg and left there.

terested.

The young woman's condition be tarian idean."

It is expected that the draft came grave, and the medical offi "There is a popular belief that Papuans are cannibala" went on election rules will be confirmed by cials of the place heard of it. They Mr. Laycock later. "At Marassar the end of February and the Fron removed her to hospital for ex several gentlemen expressed atier Province administration will amination and X-rays revealed the lively concern leat I should remain give full consideration to any sug-needles.

3.30 p.m.

HONG KONG HEIGHTS FOCH'S SUCCESSOR.

For the information of visitors highest points on the Island and the following list of some of the Mainland 25 published:----

Island.

Victoria Peak

Feet.

1823

Signal Station

1774

Mt. Parker

1784

Mountain Lodge

1725

The Eyrio

1725

Peak Hotel

Taikoo Sanatorium

1806 1000

Mt. Davis

877 Bowen Road (filterbeds) 287 Mainiand Fock Kowloon Peak Taimoshan

1973 8124

MARSHAL PETAIN ELECTED TO THE ACADEMIE FRANCAISE,

Marshal Petain was elected to the Academie Francaise to occupy the Beat rendered vacant by the death of Marshal Foch.

in New Guines in the stomach of gestions for their improvement

Forty needles were.extracted, 'but

Der & Wings are $ Lane Crawfords ......$ Mackintosha. ..........................

Sinceres

Wm. Powell

Miscellaneous.

H.K. Amuse. (C. R.) 5 (Right) $

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H. K. art. Loans......

the victim her leg will have to be Speculative, sharan. Sales to Shanghal.İ`

a Papuan. No doubt the belief is which are submitted by February it is feared that to save the life of well founded but cannibalism is 20.

3.

It is also the seat occupled in the 18th century by tha

As they stand, the draft rulas amputated. famous not practised now save possibly in Marechal de Villars, the vietor of the remotest regions.

follow closely the lines of those Terrified at the "devil's revenge," the battle of Donaln

"The Papuan is born Idle and adopted in the Punjab. As re- the young woman at firar refused to Marshal Petain wil be the tenth lives on jungle produce, ango garde the reconstitution of dla reveal how the needles came to be marshal of France to become a roots (taro) fish and any smal;trict boards, the larger areas to there, but later confessed. The member of the academy; his pre-animals he can shoot with his ar- be enfrancised complicate the pre- "witch doctor" has been arrested decessors were De Villars, rows. He will eat almost anything paration of the electoral rolls, but and a general investigation has as to the 'furtbe! D'Estrees, the Duc de Richelieu he can get, rats, mice, tough old the work has already been begun been opened

and activities' of such Belle-Isle, Beauvau, Duras, Lyau- cassowary, tree kangaroo, or any- and, the formatiein of consti- existence toy, Joffre and Foch.

thing else. Some even eat a kind tuencies is being taken in' hand.

creatures.

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