Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-11-04 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

DEATH OF A SLAVE-TRADING CHIEF.  A CANNIBAL FEAST.  In the first number of the Spassa Noes, a quarterly jcurna I printed at the Universities' Mission Bless at Likeina, on Lake Nyassa, some further details are given ot the death of the Yao slave-trading chief Makinjira or Makanjila, who was the most powerful enemy of the British Administration in Central Africa, and the news of whose murder by fis son was recently published in the Times in a letter from a ecrrespendent in Nyassaland. The _lasso 2V,z,i, states: "Makanjila is dead. There remains no doubt about the fact, and we oursdves have si'en his grave. Miserable has been his end, and pitiful and ghastly is the tale thereof. He has died, as so many l'ao chiefs in this country do die, by the hand of an assassin, though, as it would seem, in just retribution for his crimes. Here are the facts as we have recently learned them from many mouths, on the east coast of the lake, at no great distance from this town. Makanjila, for no apparent reason, slew a certain man of note named Makwirija. This caused his people to rebel, and Kuluunda, the mother of the former Makanjila, plotted his death in retaliation for Vie murder. It was arranged that Makanjila should be enticed from the house by guile and then shot. Accordingly the son of the late Makanjila, a man named Msosa, gave out that lie was about to go into the forest to hunt game. After a few days he returned and aent word to Makanjila Your son has returned and desire, to salute his father. • This brought Makanjila from his house, and no sooner had he crossed his own threshold than Ilsosa shot him. Makanjila fell, and Alsosa rushed upon him with his knife and cut his throat Another, and a more sinister story, if not certainly, yet possibly, true, especially if the character of the man be taken into consideration, attaches itself to the death of Makanjila, as purporting to gixe the cause, in part, at least, of the assassination. It is said that when Makanjila killed Makwinja he kept the latter 's corpse in his own house, saying he would bury it himself. Then he prepared a great feast ; and, slaying three oxen, caused their flesh to be cooked together with that of his victim, Makwinja. Along with this gruesome ' ndiwo ' he served up mountains of boiled rice and then called his guests. Slaves, freed 111:!1:1, coast men, Mohammedans all came, and they ate and gorged themselves, all unsuspecting, it is said, the nature of the Thyestean banquet of which they were partaking. When they had eaten to repletion and no more remained on the dishes, said Makanjila to his people, 'Come, you Waislainu, I thought it was your boast that you never would touch human fl,sh; why then have you eaten Makwinja to-day ? ' Forthwith an uproar ensued, and loud expressions of horror and disgust broke from the assembled guests. From that time forward it was resolved that Makanjila should die."  A cormorant is now making a regular restingplace of the weathercock on the spire of Newark parish church, situated in the middle of the town. There the bird has been perched since October Ist, and has never been seen to move during the claytime, but it is thought to visit the Trent for mod and water in the early morning. It is not generally known, says the Echo, .that Mr. Raymond Illathwayt, who has so successfully developed the American plan of interviewing Popular people, was formerly a curate at %Suod• borough, near Marlborough. Apparently, though he has devoted himself entirely to literary and journalistic work, he has not renounced his clerical position, for his name apreari in this year's Clergy List, though not as bolding any preferment. A ritsPec.tably-dressed man, named Williams, was sent to prison by the Southampton Bench on Monday for asking fur a Llank cheque at a shoemaker's establishment. Ile Lid been previeusly convicted fleewhere her :raw!.  A