IN New Guinea Prospecting Party.
FEARS ENTEBTAINED FOB
THEIB SAFETY.
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) BBISBANE, October 31. Fears are entertained for the safety of a prospecting party in New Guinea. It was reported on the 16th thai they had been massacred, but that turns out to be untrue. Details show that the boat capsized and three white men — McDonald, McNamara and Gibson, togethet with four natives — were drowned. Another white man named Develin reached the shore, but died from exhaustion.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3388, 2 November 1896, Page 2
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79IN New Guinea Prospecting Party. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3388, 2 November 1896, Page 2
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