Island Life.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8, 9 January 1914, Page 5

Island Life.

"BY THE WORLD FORGOT."

A WHITE MAN'S TRIAL. ißr Electric Telegraph-—Copyright] [United Press Association j (deceived 9.5 a.m. )

Sydney, January 8

Dr. Hoare, resident in the Union Group of Islands, who is visiting Sydney, gives a rather lugubrious account of his Kingdom. He and a trader are the only whites in the group. He describes life as deadly monotonous, dumped, as he is amongst lazy, good-for-nothing natives, whose language is foreign to him and with whom he has nothing in .common. There are about 1000 Natives in the group. These closely resemble Samoans. They are nominally Christians, but according to Dr. Hoare their religion is only skin dee]). They are peaceable folk, but are morally frail and incurably lazy. They have developed a passion for card-playing, and euchre parties are held all day and night. Little copra is manufactured and sold, and the proceeds are expended in luxuries, but their other crops yield sufficient to supply the Group and for those content to pass the rest of their days "the world forgetting and bv the world forgot."