MASSACRE AT NEW GUINEA.
The ‘ Java Bode’ contains particulars of a recent massacre in New Guinea waters,. The steamboat Koredo, a New Guinea trader, arrived at Ternate on July 24 with four dead bodies and two wounded men on board. Tho Koredo trailed to the Now Guinea coast, and dealt chiefly with the Natives of Geeluink Bay and Biak. She arrived at the latter place about the middle of July, and the Natives were friendly as usual. The captain, however, had a slight unpleasantness with them because a Papuan woman was frightened by the sight of his blue spectacles, Some days after this the Natives came on board and walked about the deck unarmed. The master was conversing with thorn, when suddenly he was seized by four Natives and impaled on a spear obtained from the boats alongside. He died within twenty minutes. The Natives rushed up tho bridge, and more came fiom the shore. The chief engineer, a sailor, and a stoker had their heads struck off. The boatswain, who was in the forepart of the steamer, obtained a musket and killed one ot the murderers, and seriously wounded two others, who afterwards died. Their comrades then took flight. While the massacre was going on some of the Natives took away from the vessel everything moveable, including a large sum of money
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Dunstan Times, Issue 1289, 12 November 1886, Page 4
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223MASSACRE AT NEW GUINEA. Dunstan Times, Issue 1289, 12 November 1886, Page 4
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