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Why Umio Snores No

From Our Own Correspondent

Pt. Moresby, June 6.

THE unpleasant habit of snoring was checked rather drastically in Rigo re cently, when the deep vibrations of an elderly native, Faula Umio, were unfor tunately mistaken for those of a pig, and he was speared to death before the mis take became known.

It seems that in a hunt for pigs, one night at Rigo, Umio was charged with guarding the trap while his companions dispersed. The night was dark, and the waiting tedious. Umio’s old bones ached, and soon he was snoring, with grunts so thick and vigorous that no other animal than a pig could produce them.

Guided by the sound, the party crept back, and one, Tagugaina, stealthily drove his spear home. To his dismay he found later on that the dark form lying dead on the ground was no pig, but his old uncle, Umio!

Tagugaina was charged in the Central Court with murder, but under the circum stances was found not guilty and dis charged.

Mr. E. A. Laurence and Mr. E. B. Ware- Ham have been appointed additional direc tors of Cuthbert’s Misima Goldmine Limit ed, Papua.