Revealing Incident In
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Police Court
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Rabaul, Oct. 25.
This week, in the Court of Native Affairs, a native from the crew of the vessel Tarra was charged with drinking intoxicating liquor. The
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following astonishing dialogue took place.
The Magistrate: “I find you guilty. Have you anything you wish to say before I pass sentence?”
Defendant: “Yes. Everything in the world is for the use of every body in the world. Tobacco is made for everybody. If I want to smoke nobody is going to stop me. Women
and girls. If I want a woman or a girl, nobody is going to stop me.
Intoxicating liquor. Intoxicating liquor is not for Europeans and Chinese alone, but for all people, coloured as well as white, and if I want to drink, nobody is going to stop me. I am saying this before God, you and the police.”
He was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment.
very well done by the Misses Lucy and Ida Cocker, the good voice of the latter, particularly in the higher register, lending tone and substance to her songs and to the choruses.
Mrs. Halaevalu Maile at the piano did sound contributory work.
Nukualofa voted it an excellent show.—Contributed.