MARRIAGE IN NEW GUINEA.
The following facts apropos to the women in New Guinea may not, perhaps, ba generally known : —“ A wife id looked upon as a valuable possession. She is always purchased, and a much higher price is paid for a woman than anything else. The women are proud of the price paid for them by their lords and masters. Betrothals often take place very young, and if in infancy something is paid as deposit money, and as soon as the girl is able to fetch water she carries it to her future husband. Divorce is very simple; the husband has only to tell his wife to go borne to her mother, and she is off. It she marries again the whole payment has to be returned to the former husband, who can then go again into the matrimonial market. After tne birth of a child a divorce is very rare. One young masher chief recently dismissed his five wives in one week, and before another week bad elapsed he had ten candidates for the vacancies.”—Lady’s Pictorial.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1367, 18 July 1885, Page 3
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178MARRIAGE IN NEW GUINEA. Temuka Leader, Issue 1367, 18 July 1885, Page 3
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