THE CHANDERNAGORE COLONISING SCHEME.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2266, 22 June 1880, Page 2

THE CHANDERNAGORE COLONISING SCHEME.

A OANSI UAL LEAST. [By Caiile.] Cooktw.v, June 21. The missionary schooner Ellangowau has arrived here, and brings live of the Candcrnagore party, from Hew Ireland. They state that the vessel left Antwerp secretly, and used Hags of all nationalities occasionally on the voyage. Sixty men were confined below on penalty of being shot. They arrived at Larghlau Island on January 10th, and fifty days afterwards the provisions were exhausted, and they bartered their clothes for food with the natives of "Woodlark Island. The men repeat the accounts, previously' received, of the deplorable sufferings endured by the party. The relief schooner Lily, Avhich was despatched from Sydney with stores, transhipped from the Chandernagorc, called at Hew Ireland on May Ist, but oidy stayed two hours and lauded nothing but a bag of biscuits, a few pounds of pork, and one pound of tobacco. The men further denounce the pcrlldyof the colonising scheme, and say' that the whole affair is a fraud. Sydney, June 21.

Nows comes to hand froiuNcw Guinea, that the natives on the west of the island had attacked a number of villages on the coast, and had killed and eaten sixty women, whom they had captured.