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LAtE^T PARTICULARS o*£ THE OHANDBRNAGrORE SWINDLE. ♦ . Terrible Privations of ihe Sufferers. .;: Cooktown, Monday, News has been received that the steamer Corea ran ashore on Claremont Island, bvt got off the same " night, and was beached. She has sustained great damage. ' The missionary schooner Ehlam* gowan has arrived here, and bring*** five* of the Chandernagote -from New Ireland. They state that the vessel left Antwerp secretly, and used the flags of all nationalities occasionon the voyage. Sixty men were confined below, on penalty of heing shot. They arrived at Lachlan lafend on January 10th, and fifty days afterwards the provisions were" ex- . hausted, and they : Bartered their clothes fox, foqd with the natives of* Woodlark Island. The men repeat the accounts previously received of the sufferings endm-ed by the, party. Therelief schooner Wily .which was "despatched from Sydney with stores transhipped from the Chandernagore, called at New Ireland on Mdy 1, only, stayed two hours, and landed nothing' but a bag of biscuit, a few pounds of pork, and one pound of tobacco. The men farther denounce the perfidy of tlie, ycolonising scheme, and say that the whole affair is a fraud. Sydney, Monday. V News, comes to hand fro*m New Guinea, that the natives, on the west of line island had attacked a number of villages on thfr coast, and h*4 killed te-f^teh sixty women whoni they had »'
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Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 86, 22 June 1880, Page 3
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