Outrage by Blacks.
(Per Press Association.) Cooktown, December 17. Three blacks, employed on Frank Lees' fishing station on Clark Island, have reported that while fishing off the island a number oi natives arrived from the main land, seized the cutter belonging to the fishermen, and left their own lugger behind them. Fearing something wrong, the blacks followed the mainland natives to Lees' station, where they found Lees, his Chinese cook, and a native servant had been battered to death with an iron bar, and the whole place looted. The police are investigating the matter.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 144, 17 December 1895, Page 2
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94Outrage by Blacks. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 144, 17 December 1895, Page 2
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