MASSACRE BY THE NEW GUINEA NATIVES.

Press, Volume XLIII, Issue 6593, 9 November 1886, Page 2

MASSACRE BY THE NEW GUINEA NATIVES.

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[Bt T-UKI APH PBOU TBB BLTJSfS,| k CQOKTO.W Jpi .November L\ The missionary schooner EJJaa«owa«fc .which has arrived, brings news cf at«s>_, Jriblo outrage by New Guinea natives is £ho shape of the murder of Captain Craig and all the crew of tbe ketch Emily, of ■Cooktown. Captain Craig waa pearl thab ling off Jobannet Island, hear Gordoa village. Beeides Captain Craig there wevsworking him Walter HollingwortK an atsistjU-t samed Thomson, a Greek, a Malay cook, and fonr Malay hands. HealM had in hia employment eeven Jobannet Island. On the 14th Septembir a large boat btlonging to the B_iJywe_t up to the shelling ground, leaving ths Malay cook on board. Three of tbe : Johannet: natives, pretending to be sick; ; stayed on board also. The boat anchor—l in the shelling ground in about nineteen 1 fathoms. Craig—nd Thomaon were ia ths aot of raising the diver when the natives, cap—sed them overboard, cutting ths diver's life, line, while Hose, the Greek, was clubbed at the pump with a picket of firewood. The tour Malays immediately jumped overboard, and tried to swfan tea neighboring reef. Craig i and Tho__on also struck for the reef. The Jobaanat nativee, in a large boat, weighed anchor, and went on board the £»il|» They loosened the dingy, and, taking t Win—icater rifle, o vertookHhe aik man, a—» were still swimming, and shot them all : tbe water. In the meantime the cook

been killed by the three natives on the Emily. Betnrning to the Emily, natives plundered b« of everything wanted, spread sails about, aad ■ * kerosene over them,and then stt the ~ ; on fire. The ketebjwas burnt, and-sufik nineteen fathoms ofWater. < " .