Papuan Half-Castes and Liquor
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From Our Own Correspondent SAMARAI, March 1.
FOUR half-castes were before the magistrate here this week charged with unlawfully drinking intoxicating liquor. Three of them were fined £1 and one, who was held to be the pro curer and supplier, was fined £25. All paid their fines. This is the seventh case of this nature before the local court in the last few months.
Rt. Rev. W. H. Baddeley, Anglican Bishop of Melanesia, returned to Sydney from New Zealand in mid-February and then went on to Melbourne and Adelaide, where he joined his wife. While the Bishop was in New Zealand, Mrs.
Baddeley remained in South Australia with her father, Rt. Rev. A. N. Thomas, Anglican Bishop of Adelaide. Bishop and Mrs. Baddeley will leave Sydney late in March by the “Morinda” for Vila, New Hebrides, where they will join the Melanesian Mission vessel “Southern Cross” for their headquarters in the Solomon Islands.