RABAUL RISING.
Arrest Attempt Rouses Native
Hostility.
POLICE SHOOT NINE.
(Received 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Details were received by the Maraina, which arrived from Rabaul, of the attack made a month ago upon the Government party in the Or.onge district. It appears that two patrol officers and a party of native police Went to the village of Goilala to attempt the arrest of a native murderer.
The villagers showed open hostility «nd in the resulting conflict one native policeman was wounded and nine Goilala men shot. The murderer wa3 eventually arrested and is now awaiting trial.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 55, 6 March 1929, Page 7
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