New Guinea.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 285, 29 October 1884, Page 2

New Guinea.

■ 4 v { irisrcEb' ' 4ssociatiob[. ) . ; ; _,: : ; , ,< 7, "•'.', , , r Thames, Obfc.) 25: ■■ '" Correspondencd' received ;by there-; Jatlvjea'pf the Wild Duck cruis;ii>gvpart^i Avnodef t'jtlie Ne\V ( Q;uinea m , April last, furnishes particulars of a Mu'uiair<with trie'ihative'B,> Axa t\\% couraft.of which Charles , Lawlor, oue i! of l 'ihe owners of v the vessel, was 'sorhWrlat ,^KR6ijely wouDded^^^^ftaij 1 , reachibg port Moresby., the party ' embarked r in 'ithe r jb.eche sq mer trade, an^AKere assisted m .1 tjieir pperatipn's ( by. a ' liuitibef ; of ,ap 7 'paretitly fiiendly ! " I b'Ta'cks.- t On one oc- 1 casfpnV. when Lawlor was; engaged m, hoisting the anch'br'o'if the- yessers'boatj a native . pushed . • him; ioverboird anden- ; deavored to drown him, and m the strug* g|e <w,hic,h ensued another, attacked him with a spear. With the s assistance i of . his; ccimrades ( he succeeded' m ,get,t^pg; rid i 6fhtß ; assailants, but not !until s^eral nasty wounds had been' 'inflicted, 'fiftr was eveiHually assisted on board the' ketch m a, state of ibsetjsibili.ty." ''Attdr' this evideuce; , ;of ; ,trea9,h,ery -^ the j party deeme^i^fadvi^a^jie^yp return to Cooktown. AccoVding'io iatest jnWmatipn the wounded man had completely je.-r covered from the consequences of his 'adVe'hture\ J^ ' '•'■> ..- •