New Guinea.
Not long ago ("says the New Guinea, correspondent of the , Sydney Morning JBerald) the Motu Motu natives made a raid at fiedsear Bay, and surrounding an unprotected village, the natives of which had done them no harm, tney waited until the women and children had gone to the plantations, and then falling upon theiu defenceleas as they were, killed 50 of them, The t slaughter was followed by the looting of the village, and then the Motu Motu men returned to their canoes, carrying with them a young girl they had captured m the vjllhge alive. Even thesft proceedings were not the worst that took place during this inhuman expedition, for on the way back to Motu Motu a dispute arose as to the ownership of the captured girl, and to settle the, matter a savage m his anger seized a bow and .arrow, shot th« noor ejrl to the heart, and threw her dead body overboard.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 29, 5 January 1885, Page 2
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159New Guinea. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 29, 5 January 1885, Page 2
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