NEW GUINEA EXPEDITION.
SAFE hErU&X OF THIS PARTY. Received November 24, 12.15 p.m. Bhi."Bank, This Day. Telegrams from Oonktown slate that the members of the < : e graphical partr 4re nil safe having nrrired at Cook town last night in the ateuraer Bonito. Sydney, This Day. Further details in regard to the »afc return of the Auxtralinn Geographical* •■xpeditii<n, »tite that after ascending the. Fly Hirer as far as it wan p<i*nible to do in the Banito, they toek to the whale* boat nnd pr ce«led some eighty miles up the stream. Here they enoountered a nunu'MU* iwd? of natives whom thej describe as a fine race, although exceed* incly -<hy and hostile to strangers. Ca|>t BTerill states ho found it impossible to held any frien Hy communication with them, and the jungle was so den«e that he had to return without beine able to penetrate anj distance into the interior of the country. Hobabt, This Day. The TTnian Company's new steamer M araroit arrived yeaterdar from Laadon, tnd sailed again for Sydney in order to commense the new San Fraaciaeo service. She brings 67 passengers for New Zealand. _^_- i
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 71, 24 November 1885, Page 2
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