MEWS FROM NEW GUINEA.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 353, 23 March 1889, Page 6

MEWS FROM NEW GUINEA.

The New Guinea news to hand by fch° Hairier, via Sydney, includes the account of a murder which took place on Now Year's Day, afc the time the prizes for sports were being distributed. {Some natives belong, ing to an inland tribe fell upon one of another tribe at tho sports and killed him. This was at Kerapuna, and tho murderers had been secured when the schooner left, but were not tried. Reports had come in from a place called St. Joseph that alluvial gold had been discovered there, bub the finders had to give up in consequence of sickness from fever. Outrages by natives are becoming less frequent ab New Guinea ' since Dr. Macgregor assumed conti'ol of aflairb there. Cannibalism exists still, ib is believed, in the north-west portions of the island. The Harrier was nine month? away from Sydney, the whole of which time was spent on the New Guinea coast or in mission work bebweon there, Thursday Island, and Cooktown. She was 80 days under sail up to February 10 lust, and had travelled 6,567 miles in a direct course, and had carried about 64 passengers from place to place in that time Two new missionaries, Mr Dauncey and Mr Walker, young men, arrived from Home lately, and were taken to Port Moresby in the Harrier. This makes seven white missionaries ab present bherc, besides native teachers. Of the latter it is intended to transfer some from the South Sea Islands shortly. While the Harrier is here she will be re-metalled, and have some additions made to'th commodation for carrying teachers.