Cannibalism in the South Seas.
' ' ;'■ — — — — -^«— — «■*■ 1.1 ; ( ; \ (UNITED PRESS. ASSOCIATION.) Thames, March 25. A letter received by Mv Charles Lawlor, one of the Wild Duck "cruising party, who were lately m the neighbourhood of the Eugineer Group, southeast of New Guinea," giVes particultrr iof oannibal atrocity perpetrated ahoutNcw' Year's Day on the Island bf 'Worhworngay. William Read, manager of the Copra Station at Bentley Island, was gathering cocoanuts, when the Natives, instigated by a Chinaman, attacked him. Read made a running fight, but as he endeavored* to regain his hbat was shot down, and the 'murderers cut off the head and eat the .body. A missionary front Test Island* proceeded to Bentley, prepared to arrest the miscreants, McCord, the deceased's mate, was tod debiliated to take any measures', and it waa thought better to allow a man-of-war to take up the ease; , .■ ; . '..'..-,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 97, 27 March 1885, Page 2
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141Cannibalism in the South Seas. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 97, 27 March 1885, Page 2
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