MASSACRE AT NEW GUINEA.
Sydney, Oct. 27. News has been received of another massacre at New Guinea. "While the yacht Lizzie, owned anil sailed by Captain Webster, who is making a cruise round the world, lay off the Dutch possessions in New Guinea, early in August, some of the crew went ashore for a day's shooting but shortly after the boat reached the shore one of the sailors* came running back pursued by a horde of natives. managed to swim aboard amid a shower of arrows and spears. Three other members of the crew were unable to escape, and were killed and eaten. The boat in which the crew landed, together with five guns, were caput ured by the natives. For five days the yacht was unable to gel away from her anchorage. Large bodies of natives made continuous attempts to board her, and several of them were shot.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 157, 28 October 1896, Page 3
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