ORRIBLE MASSACRES BY NATIVES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7997, 7 December 1905, Page 2

ORRIBLE MASSACRES BY NATIVES.

EEVOLTIJS'G BRUTALITIES. Beceivcd 0, 0.14 a.m. Sydney, Doc. 6. The women captured were stripped naked and exposed to a vast crowd. Little Amie Maclile was the first who met with death. After she had Been dragged with Miss Chestnut from the Cave to a river bank, naked, they were compelled to stand in front of the villainous natives, and were tlion flung uninjured into tho river. Miss Chest* nut being able to swim, struck out to a sane bank, whilst Amie clung to some shrubs in the river. For uoiae tea minutes they were loft alone by tho crowd, who were engaged in looking at Mrs Maclile, who had in the meantime boon discovered. Ultimately a heartless savage waded out into the river and drove » thxee. prongod instrument though Amio Machles skull, whilst others raa « similar weapon through Mist Chest, nuts body. Streaming with blood, tha bodieg were dragged, ashore, shockingly mutil. •ted, beaten, stabbed, and slashed into a state to defy recognition. They wera then hurled into the rivea again. Then Mrs Machle was dragged to the bank, her clothes torn from her, a? d she was expose*, naked, to the ridicule of the jeering orowd. Bhe expostulated with them, and was tell. »ng them of j the folly of their deeds when one man rushed at her with atones and knocked her skull in. Almost simultaneously a spear was run through her body. In a moment, all whocould strike tho quivering flesh wero beating it with clubs and slashing it in pieces. Then the corpse was thrown into the stream.

An interval of half nn Lour elapsed before the erowd found anyone else. Thoy then discovered the Bcr. and Mrs Peale. Dragging the nnhappy couple out of their hiding place, they stripped them of thoir clothing, and stood them upon a platform in full view of he crowd. They were kept there for about half an hour, and during that time were forced to subrnit So the most Scandalous conduct. A t last, ono of the bloodthirsty wretches crept up behind Mr Peale and felled him to the ground with a heavy stone, his body falling at tbo feet of his wife. The mob compelled her to look on while they speared the body through and mutilated it. with clubs and bamboos until it was a shapeless mass. X.Mr» Peale did not, have to suifer long in agony, for a crash from a cluh relieved her of her senses, and, falling to the ground, htr body was treated l kc all (he rest. [The cable containing the particulars has not come to hand.]