LATER PARTICULARS.
Further details to hand respecting the massacre of the Geographical Expedition. — Captain Eferell, leader of the expedition; having reason to believe that the native chief, Caresoa, who was piloting them up the Fly River .was misleading them, threw him overboard, whereupon Caresoa m order to he revenged stole the boat, obtained a number of fighting men, returned at night and maesacrod -the party/ 'Several savages having been seen' with new table knives m their possession, supposed to belong to the expedition, conpied with the fact that Captain Everell failed to keep his appointment with Mr Macfarlane, tends to point to the truth' of tbe reports previously. received.:
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1507, 16 November 1885, Page 4
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109LATER PARTICULARS. Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1507, 16 November 1885, Page 4
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