NEW HEBRIDES.
GOING TO THE BAD. SYDNEY, July 13. Pastor Stewart, an Adventist missionary from the New Hebrides, repeats charges of the failure of condominium government. Affairs are in a state of chaos and are rapidly drifting from bad to worse. He asserts that the illicit sale of firearms and liquor flourishes, and apart from cruel practices of infanticide, parricide, and. murder, in which the heathen natives indulge, the sale of girls to become the wives Of their purchasers is still widely practiced. The price of a girl aged from six to twelve ranges from ten to thirty pigs.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18532, 14 July 1922, Page 7
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99NEW HEBRIDES. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18532, 14 July 1922, Page 7
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