DIRECT AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
(renter's telegrams, per press agency. Sydney, September 14. A boat-race for LIOO between Laycock, of Sydney, and Messenger, of Melbourne, was won by Laycock easily. September 15. Fuller particulars have come to hand concerning the New Britain massacres about Easter time. Five of Mr. Brown's native teachers, stationed at Malicola, incautiously left the coast and went in-
land ten miles. The bush natives, who are hostile to the coast tribes, surrounded and murdered them, afterwards cooking and eating them with barbarous ceremonies. A few days afterwards, the expedition organised by Mr. Brown attacked and destroyed the village, killing from 50 to 80 natives.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 759, 16 September 1878, Page 2
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