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Primitive N. Guinea
From Our Own Correspondent
Pt. Moresby, Oct. 3.
a NEW GUINEA native whose wife wanted to leave him, set fire to his house and burnt her and another lative woman to death. The native, Jara, was sentenced to death in the Supreme Court at Kundiawa.
This was one of 12 murder cases dealt nth by Mr. Justice Bignold during his ecenti Supreme Court circuit in New guinea. v A native woman, Ebaramet, who killed ier husband’s other wife, was sentenced o three years’ gaol, at Garoka, for tiurder. She killed her fellow wife with n axe because the woman was unfaith ul to their husband. The husband him elf had forgiven the woman for her apse.
Rev. A. Crookes Hull, organising secre ,ary of the Methodist Overseas Mission, ias announced that a leper hospital will >e built at Übula, Normandy .Island, *apua. When completed the hospital will >e able to treat 80 patients.