NEW GUINEA SHOOTING AFFRAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12660, 14 September 1904, Page 5

NEW GUINEA SHOOTING AFFRAY.

~,mmiii imj + i 1~t11i"ni ■ I JUDGE/ HITCto - i n : ' * i j '« , 'D, |: - JJjr Telegraph,--Press r •: :•■;: 1- « • ■ '--;.'. ' ~ -, -, ;„ : ■-~.",.-. . MttBOUBSBj Sefjtembes 13. I The report of Judge : Murray, of ■ New South ■■ | Wales, who wan appelated a'fcoyal Gonaniev - I sioner to inquire into the shooting of natives ■ iat Gcaribari Island, New Guinea, in March, - j has been placed oi» the table of the Hdose, jot Repveeantati.-es. [ .After lengthily reviewing the ciimm- , stances in which the shooting took place, ..; • the report finds thtt the general course of " the action* on board the Merrie England : rested with this late M&. Robinson, who, . . under sudden ekcitinent, lost that rigid self- ■• control which i 3 expected item one In coin- : : ■ mand, but the fault was one <t>f : .oferzsal and want of judging rather fc!aaft anything ap- •; / proaching conscious or wilf departure troll ; v the absolutely, straight path befitting . the., -"v high oiScowhMih he held, • Mr. Robinson'e subordinates ,aie practically exonerated, Ihe not having informed them of his intentions. Tbo report explain?, ' thai the probable cause of Mr. Robinsons Bnieide was that he '■ -\ ~i was suffering Iron* malaria, and. . overstrain, : and the effect of the reports circulated re- ,' garding the Glontiteri «iaijf ;aelinf on a'-" ■■ . highly sensitive nature. 'ryL': ' : '-■'.:. <'C --: •--< i j -. i ,