SOUTH AFRICA
SACRIFICES TO RAIN GOD. CAPETOWN, January 18. The fierce, long drought caused one native tribe in Rhodesia to kill human beings to appease the Rain God. Sixty natives have been arrested in consequence, and taken to Fort Darwin, NorthEast Mashon aland. The rains are now soaking the country. THE UNION PARLIAMENT. CAPETOWN, January 19. Parliament has opened. The GovernorGeneral’s Speech welcomed signs that the country is beginning to recover slowly from unprecedented depression ; but he expressed fear that the further occupation of Germany might bring about an economic crisis in Central Europe which might have very far-reaching effects, even for South Africa. The revival in the diamond market bad rendered possible the early resumption of work on some of the mines. The gold industry was being pursued ou a sounder economic basis, and the larger scale of Customs revenue showed the upward movement.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3593, 23 January 1923, Page 42
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