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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4449, 31 August 1901, Page 4 (Supplement)

Feasting in New Guinea, in which one village gives feasts and receives them in turn from another village, leads to unexpected results. There is a oer tain amount of quarrelling, which begins over the size of the pigs, alleged to be under scale. As the measurements from previous feast s are kept, it is easy to substantiate or deny this particular statement. Then the taro pyramid is not up to the previous standard. Language grows strong, the gossip of the village is raked up, and charges of all kinds of misdeeds are levied. “Murder will out” is an old saying, and, on these occasions accusations of murders long ago committed and undetected have been brought up. then afterwards in vestigated, and th 6 guilty party punished. Thus feast-quarrelling has tended to check crime- After the food has been apportioned and consumed there is peace and goodwill. The late Marqnis of Bute left each of his children a largo estate, and Lord Ninian Stuart has been completing his convales cence at Falkland House, Fife. Lord Ninian Stuart has decided to enter the Diplomatic Service, and he hopes, therefore, to spend a good deal of hia life in far-off capitals. Though only eighteen years of age he is alreadv an excellent linguist, and he wa s in Russia for the purpose of learning the tongue when the fever took him which has been the source of a great deal of trouble for himself, and the occasion of a long journey for his mother, _