TRAGEDY IN WESTRALIA.
MISSION WlPl-h OUT
(IVr I're.ss Association.)
Melbourne, April 1
\ polive tel gram I'ioiu Broome, West Australia, indicates that the "Roman Catholic Al origin* s' Mission at JJrysd'jlo in tho north- west, has been wippd out. It \v..s established in 1008 and consisted of two Fathers, fix lay bretliren, and some half caste?. The master of a sehoonrr takingsupplies found the house, intact, but traces of several iirea with some human bones in them.
Tbo Protector of Aloiigiues doubts the story, and thinks the schooner visited the wrorg plae?. Ho admit?, however, that the natives in tho vicir.i'y are violently hostile
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLII, Issue 6097, 6 April 1914, Page 5
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103TRAGEDY IN WESTRALIA. Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLII, Issue 6097, 6 April 1914, Page 5
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