MASSACRE IN NEW GUINEA. THE EXPLORING PARTY MURDERED.
[reuteb's cablegram.] Cooktown, November 7.— The s.s. Gunga arrived to-day from Thursday Island. The captain states that when he left, two Papuan natives had arrived from New Guinea with the report that all the members of the exploring expedition sent out by the Geographical Society of N.S.W. had beon'attackod and murdered by the natives in the Fly River district of New Guinea.
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Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 128, 14 November 1885, Page 5
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70MASSACRE IN NEW GUINEA. THE EXPLORING PARTY MURDERED. Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 128, 14 November 1885, Page 5
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