Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1878-10-12 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE BLACK SEA. We (Globe) are infer Med Hint full instructionilave' been issued by Admiral Lemovsky for placing the I Russian marine in the Bleck Sea upon a peace foot, Mg. Admirals Tehikacheff and Ponpondopulo of the Odessa Squadron are placed on the reserve and ordered to strike their flags forthwith. The signal posts crested round the Black Sin coast are to be closed or r- coved, and the watchmen despatch to Nicolideff. The electrical apparatus from France erected at Odessa, Olchakoff, Sebastopol, and Kertch is to be returned to store, and the offiCers and men in charge of the arrangements to be sent back to the fitet. All the submarine mines sunk along the tout are to be recovered, the coast torpedo brigade to be broken up, and the torpedo cutters and craft sent to Nicolaieff or leech. Tho floating mortar batteries attached to the defences of Olchaketf and Kertch are to be placed on clan remorse, the men-of-war protecting the leading ports to be sent to If, icolaieff, and the only vessels left on guard to be the Berman at Olehakoff, the Tuob at Odessa, the Boehm at Sebastopol, and the Psesuan and Abin at Kertuh.  PAPUA AND THE PAPUAM, . _ _ (From the "Globe.") That New Guinea is destined for annexation to the British Empire ie a popular article of faith at Sydney ants Melbourne. Perhaps the prediction may be fulfilled sooner or later in so far as the parts of the island not under the Dutch tlag are concerned. Any instalments of information about thin poseible inheritance of ours, therefore, posses. 5 certain Caine, and this is especially the csse when the addition to our stock of knouledge comes from some one vslie his lived at Pape 0. be public are accord, irgly indebted tea missionary who has just been recounting his recent experiences &monk the Papuan's foe the bimefitof Leeds. lathe first place, it is noses'. eery to besein mind that iin island 1400 miles Ipng presents great diefer.nces in the governing conditions of life. The lecturer could only eper':aeout the southeast portian, but even then, our civilisition will comei into collision with a very strange state' of things. Thu!, the codeine of it 'Papuan belle coo. tints of eerrings and tattooing. The former eonsmean= iteein--eueh devour, Oat sometimes as many as fifty will oe son haeging from a single ear, while the art of tattooing is carried to as high perfection us among the Burmeee. To be very fashionable, a young lady of New Guinea must cover herself with a perfect net work of indelible marks, and then, but not till then, she may look for an eligible parti with some prospect of success. The wooden houses of the country are said to be remarkably well Midi ,while gardening is quite a passion with the Papuan men. They also hunt and fish, while the women employ; themselves in household work, and act as beasts of burden when chang ing res:dece.s. So far, however, from considering this latter a hardship, it is a right of which the sex are extremely proud, and any foreigner who went among them agitating for reetrictions on female labour would soon have a hornet's n. et about his ears. There are, unhappily, two very unpleasant pro pensities among the gentlemen of New Gain., They delight in thieving, and they are proficients no ' murder. As a North American "brave" prides himself on the scalps he possesses, so done a Papuan elegant receive perennial happiness from the tattoo ' marks on his sable skin. Each of these signifies' a ' successful murder, ard so strong is the taste for seCh embellishment that expeditions are often organised by' ' the young men against unprotected villager,' for no other reason than to obtain the right to have their faces and chests tattooed with the brand of assassination. The religion of the country amounts to nothing more than a belief in ghosts and evil spirits, to whom they ascribe rill the ills of life.