100 Skulls Cause Excitement
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In "Flapper" Press
AUSTRALIAN newspapers, in May, be came excited when a case, which has lain in a Bond Store near the water front for 30 years, was opened and found to contain 100 skulls. The reporters of the “flapper” press foamed at the mouth —here was evidence of a murder mystery such as they had never played with, even in th,eir wildest dreams. The matter was referred to the Criminal Investigation Department.
The sensational bubble was broken, however, by Mr. J. p. Watson, a Mon aro grazier. He said that the skulls probably belonged to him—he had devel oped a keen interest in skull measure ments when he was a medical student 30 years ago, and the captain of a trad ing vessel had brought him a case of skulls (relics of headhunters) from New Guinea or the Solomon Islands; and the case had gone into bond and had been forgotten.
The “flapper” press reporters wem home and kicked the dog.
Rev. E. L. Sykes, a young licentiate of the Victorian Church has been ap pointed to the post of missionary at
Malo and Nogugu, New Hebrides, by
the Foreign Missions Committee of the Presbyterian Church of N.S.W. Mr.
Sykes is expected to leave for the New Hebrides in June.