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to prevail »_THE LAND OF THE BLACK JEWSILB8KAUCII IN NKNV Gl'lNKAMb Omit lUmiiii-.t, I whoarrived reeeullj from New Guinea. delivered n lecture in llir Town Hall laal night «•*» In* itpreiligation* of the tjpra of the ntliiw in the dark continent of llir mirtli. ami mum pa rileularly fhoar of the ialnml of Kiwi, mar • lie momli of llir Fly Kivrr, » boa* character-i*lica, *livi!glj Jfrlnair n. I» feature* Mid alao to |Mlt;r*tinal i|Ua)ilir* in companion *lll» (lie other tribe* of I'uptis, have Ini |iim to ilio belief that tliry nrr, n» lie term* thrm, black, .I*** About ItlO ior.on* war*' prr-.nt. including a number of WinMr B»iiibridgr, who apolngUed for tin' aha* tier of Ike Mayor llirough iiidupoiilion, lirat fid In* audience lliat bv lia«f viiited No* Guinea and many other part* of ike world 10 gam informal ion for Ike purpose of puMitbtna work* on In* itnratigalion*. After nailing k 1*1 Jalaod and ruining into eloar .-onUet with ike native* 1hrre. he Uad no lioaiuticn in »t*lmg tint I boy were black Jew* In order In ilri ngllteit In* contention lie i|iioled many neraon* nnnlilird fo apeak on Ilu* »ubjret. j'Jir p.vp)«- of Kim Island, be aald, *r* widely different from thoo* on the mainland. Tlieir hair u enukly, Ikeir now* are long and broad, and llieir fnrekead* high. whm-aa tkr neighbouring Irikc* nrr a lt;iaalt; wilk u lower type of face, and with fuxjy lour In addition, these inhaluUnU of (In* a in nil liland near Ike mainland am much shrewder and brighter, and on that account are «elm led by Hie Cutlotna Official* and police for arrriee Another remarkable mat ter t liiil mu related to It on an that they were *u Kef to persecution l*y ike people of the mainland cm tkr oclt;n*inn of certain funr-Inn.* or festival*. Fun her, they had Period* of the year in which llie male* fasted for a number of day a Oiler traveller* in New Guinn. Mr. Balnbridge ok-erved, bad apt.ken and w nltrn of tin chu.-m Icri-tically J*wi«k fanllire* of tin* purln ular Iribc. He bud lt;1 rl. rinuk’iI to earry out further leaearih into ikeir rintnuu nuil pecukaritiei Hit theory w«. that they bad originally p»«ard to tka Urirnl from tUr eonnlry between Ike Tigria and IIIe Kuphratc*. will. Ike belief tkal in (be hrgiuniti^ man an* dark tkintmi, tliere bring iuaunrei of ivl.it** child run from black parent*, and not the reverae. to help itAbout aatenty ibtere.ling picture*, including natur* of Nc* Guinea, of K'»i Itland, and al*o view* drteriptiir of New Guinea «eencry and building* ««re shown. Among*! tliemo»l rrtnarkable were different type# of natirr* including, wliat Mr, Baiubridge lerm.il llir Black Jew, black and a bit# child, florid dance bj Ike native*, ualirr trmplr*. club kouau*. dwelling licnueij an ni|Ued|iet nude of hollow logs, and *«id to barn luwn built over a Hundred year* i naliiea culti*Mini; three of the *uppo«eil murderer* of lr Chalmrr*; IVniian Choral Fwnrty; mother and child in dilly bag , a leper; gam’r* and oilier*. The U.t picture shown »»i one lt;d tlm lo.nl enJcbrity—the Queen of the Sonrb.The picture* were abown by mean* of an acetylene gaa lantern manipulated bv Mr A.K low ell.At the eunrlkMim of the lecture Mr Raiu-brufge cxprriud thank* for the «rlt;ut kind-ne*« nud ■•■i.unri toward* him by the on-;, the Mayor (Aid. \V. Coal ley), Mr, Senior ln*pcclor Klaibman, the Uachrra, and other* whom hr had come in wmtnet with, lie **1.1 hr had been Specially pleased with hi* visit to the loe.il pnolir iNinnl*, and referred to (he playground at Boulk Goulhurn n* being the moil ntlraetife lie had arm in the wbole world. lie apoka with »ome nulhorily regarding education, a* he had in-i|Uir.il mlo the ij.letni of «irion* munlrics. but he lud not »ecii »Ucli an infernal i rift and inatruetuc playground a* the one ai South Gonlbnrn. He al-o wubrd to thank .Mr. Luiiudru, the headmaalcr of that achool. for hi* kmdnraa. Mr Hainbridar oonrluded by anting he would wander off by the eipreu ne\t morning In Sydney for a brief period. He would then rt«it Victoria, South Au*tra-ba. Write m naira I ia, croaa over to India, go through Kurn|»’t and back to ICngUn.l to • i-rrintenl the i-*uc of two or three works In mm lining pitblihlird.
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Goulburn Herald
Goulburn, New South Wales, AU
Wed, Jun 28, 1905
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