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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1560, 2 October 1912, Page 6

An interesting custom of the blacks in the luniberlcy district of West Australia was spoken of by Dr. Kric Jljoberg, of .Sweden, to a gathering in Sydney recently. The blacks, said the doctor, are in the habit of "burying" their dead iii a tree, in which they place him on a litter. 'J hey don't believe in a natural death, and always find somebody guilty of the demise of their tribesman.- What they do is to place a number of stones underneath the litter on which (he corpse rests, calling the stones by the name of "aoh per?in the deceased knew in life. In a week tho body begins lo decay ami tlio fluid from it flows down. The linme of tho stone on to which it drins ii (aknn to l>o the name of the man who murdered the dead black. The whole tribe then set out after that man, and slay him most effectually. Tn the ca.-s oT 'a dead bov, which was shown on nuf nf the huifeni slides exhibited by ])r. llioberi, the latter said that the drips fell on ;\ -ton- which represented a nnlive named Tarrngo "Thereupon the tribe." said the doctor,' "spilt a message In Tnrrago infonniiiit him that they would like tn sqo him very much. But Tarrngo heard of the matter and travelled with haste to fresh territory."

Detectives Cameron and Demptey arrested « man yesterday on a charge of stealing a bicycle, valued at .i.i, the property of Mr. Gco. Scales. The accused will be charged with the offence at the Mnsistrato's Court this morning.

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