AUSTRALIA.
.[REUTEn's SPECIAL TO THE -PSEI3S AGENCY.] Sydney Nov. 57. The strike continues in Sydney, Brisbane, and Newcastle unabated. Efforts at mediation have failed. Three Chinese crews are now discharging and loading the Company's vessels. The latest New Caledonian news-states that a terrible massacre of eleven whites took place at the mouth of the River Poya. The party were engaged in the carriage of provisions to the troops. The bodies were found cut up and cooked. Sailors searching the River Percy were fired upon by the rebels. Further massacres are reported, but particulars are wanting. A large number of troops have arrived at Noumea during the month.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 247, 29 November 1878, Page 3
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107AUSTRALIA. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 247, 29 November 1878, Page 3
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