NEW GUINEA HEAD HUNTERS.
SANGUINARY CONFLICT WITH THE POLICE. THIRTY NATIVES KILLED. By Telegraph.—Press Association.— Brisbane, November 22. News has reached here of a conflict' at the mouth of the Morehead River, in New' Guinea, between the police and the notorious Tugerei head hunters. The police destroyed five canoes and 30 Tugerei were drowned or killed. The Tugerei had previously raided a native village and killed 15. The punitive party had no casualties.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11537, 23 November 1900, Page 5
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