Shackleton’s burial ceremony | Otago Daily Times Online News

London: Captain Hussey reviews from South Georgia by wi-fi that after being borne over piles of whalebone and little mountain streams the physique of Sir Ernest Shackleton was laid at relaxation ceaselessly in just a little hillside cemetery in South Georgia on March 5. His head lies to the southward, in direction of the Antarctic he beloved so properly. Over his resting place there’s raised a easy picket cross, bearing wreaths from Girl Shackleton and members of the expedition. Previous to the service within the church, which was of the only character, and which was performed by a Justice of the Peace, Mr Binnie, Mrs Aderg, the one lady on the island, positioned a bunch of freshly-gathered flowers on the coffin. 100 whalers have been current, the Norwegians singing funeral hymns and the corporate repeating the Lord’s Prayer. Then the coffin was borne on the stalwart shoulders of six Shetlanders, all ex-servicemen, up the hillside, adopted by a cortege of islanders. The church bell solemnly tolled whereas the rest of the service was performed on the graveside, the Norwegians singing their funeral hymns. Magnificent wreaths from the Uruguay Authorities, French Maritime Society and different our bodies in Uruguay have been positioned on the grave. — Occasions

Horrific remedy of Aborigines

Darwin: Startling disclosures, matching the worst options of uncivilised communities, are reported from Darwin. The overall conduct of affairs by the division in control of the Northern Territory is described regionally as an open scandal. Since 1917, when correct official inspection was abolished, natives have been uncared for and neglected. They’ve been continuously drunk and disorderly, and common pitched battles have been frequent close to the compound and on the outskirts of the city. A correspondent of the Normal, the native newspaper, publishes horrible revelations in regards to the remedy of natives on far-back cattle stations. He provides names, dates, and locations, and says that he and others noticed the supervisor on one station order a black boy to be tied to a put up. He then flogged him with a stockwhip till he (the supervisor) was exhausted. As a result of a Chinese language cook dinner hit a boy on the top with a boot final, inflicting a nasty lower, the boy retaliated and knocked the Chinaman down. The supervisor lined the boy along with his rifle and made two different boys tie him up. Then he flogged him. The author asserts that the natives are enslaved and flogged, the ladies are ravished, and plenty of acts of fiendish cruelty perpetrated. The correspondent additional complains of the stunning insanitary situations of many of the stations. Illness is rife. “Some stations,” stated the correspondent in conclusion, “might be smelt earlier than being seen — the worst offenders being the most important pastoral stations.”

Pomp and ceremony for Edward

Tokyo (April 15): The Prince of Wales, dressed within the uniform of a Japanese basic (which is the honorary rank bestowed upon him), with the Prince Regent, each on horseback, reviewed this morning 14,000 troops of the First Division of the Tokyo Garrison. An uncommon function was that when the Prince rode to the reviewing floor, massed bands performed the British Nationwide Anthem, and bugle bands performed concurrently the Japanese Anthem.  — ODT, 5.5.1922