A BRUSH WITH THE NATIVES.
i» AX ATTACK OX A VILLAGE. By Cable:—Press Association—Copyright. Melbourne, November 2(1. The Administrator of Papua reports a serious conflict between a patrol anil a party of natives, resulting in seven natives being killed. While en route to investigate the murders in the Cukila district, Mr Chinnery, assistant resident magistrate, with a force of native police, collided with a hostile tribe in the liigo district. The natives opposed Mr Chinnery's entrance to a stockaded village and threw spears. The police iired two volleys and drove out the natives. Mr Chinnery was informed that six out of seven of the killed had participated in the Cokila massacres.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19141121.2.47
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 151, 21 November 1914, Page 8
Word count
Tapeke kupu
111A BRUSH WITH THE NATIVES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 151, 21 November 1914, Page 8
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in