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Misfortunes
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Papeete, June 2.
WE have had an extraordinary series of misfortunes in the Paea district in recent months.
One day, when I was travelling along the Broom road towards Papara, I saw a large crowd in front of a native house. I went in and there on the floor I saw a dead woman, whose head had been completely sev ered from her body. She had been young and good looking. Her husband, in a fit of jealousy, had committed this horrible crime.
A little later a man was fishing on the reef one night with a Coleman lamp. The light, of course, attracted fish all around him. Suddenly a large swordfish, diving at the light, pierced the body of the fisherman, killing him instantly.
Not long ago, a group gathered around to watch with amusement a fight be tween two schoolboys. Suddenly one fell unconscious. He was carried home — dead.
The other day a boy from that same house wanted to find out what happens in an empty gasoline-tin when a match is thrown in. He was badly burned and may lose his eyesight.
And, finally, the son of a native chief of Papara has been killed—run over by a car owned by Nedo Salmon. The latter was sentenced to a month’s imprison ment—but the sentence was suspended because it was apparent that the boy had run right into the vehicle.