SHOT IN PAPUA.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1644, 10 January 1913, Page 7

SHOT IN PAPUA.

' POLICEMAN AND VILLAGER.. . Tho Lieutenant-Governor of Papua haa reported to the Australian External Affairs Department tho death, 'by shooting, of Constablo Amaru, wlio was killed by U native of Bam village, in the east central division. : A village native was shdt by the police on tho'same occasion in defence ot their own. lives. ' , The relieving magistrate, Mr. ( Wuth, who was doing patrol duty, was proceeding to a village in the east central part of tho. territory. Ho decided to divido a email force of 10 polico and some carriers that he had with liim. A. native corporal, with Constables Paiva and Aruaru and 6omo carriers, he sent to Little Bam. The magistrate himself went on to Baisabaga with 'the balance of the police'and oarriers. His instructions to tho oorporal wero that ; they were to go only to Little Bam, ajid return to where the 1 ewaga icere as as possible, and there await the magistrate's return. Soon.aftorwards.it was ascertained that the con6tables had proceeded to Big Bam instead of rejoinipg Mr. Wuth. The natives saw them coming, and prepared to ambush. In an attack which' followed, Aruaru was felled and speared in'several parts of the body. The corporal was speared on the leg, but not seriously. Constable Paiva waa speared on tho leg, but,very slightly. , Aiva, who killed Aruaru, was, when Murray wrote on December 4, still at, large. The polico were in. search of him. Mr. Jackson, patrol officer, who. was sent to Abau. the Government station of tho east' central division, .'with a party of polico, to .assist Mr. Wuth in a patrol into the Doriwaida oonntry, will, isays Judgo Murray, be ablo to co-operate. Lieutenant Murray held an inquiry. He fonnd that the death of Aruaru was dircctly attributable to his having dis-. obeyed orders by going to Big Bam instead of rejoining Mr. Wuth, and that tho village nativo was shot by tho police in self-dcfence.