NEWS : FROM NEW BRITAIN.
NATIVE RISING IN THE FRENCH ISLANDS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received March 4, 9.29 a.m.) . SYDNEY, This Day. News from New Britain stales that a rising Las occurred in the French islands to the north. From the meagre particulars co hand it appears that the natives attacked the trading station of Peter Hansen, killed sixteen of his labourers, and burnt and looted the station houses. The white traders had taken refuge in some shelter, and were holding out •,-ainst the natives. A Government steamer had gone to the scene of the disturbance.
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Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 52, 4 March 1901, Page 5
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94NEWS: FROM NEW BRITAIN. Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 52, 4 March 1901, Page 5
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