NEW BRITAIN MASSACRE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 12661, 15 September 1904, Page 5

NEW BRITAIN MASSACRE.

ANOTHER REPORT., •|(y Telegraph.—Prsss Association.—Copyright. , i Sydney September 14. , ': A letter to the general secretary of the Methodist Mission from their islands correspondent mentions the fact that early iw August there wan a rising in German New Guinea, which wai led by an. ex-New Britain boy, its object being the extermination o* the whites. The Vice-Governor went to the scene of the trouble and quelled it. All is now quiet there. _ Referring to the massacre of Roman Catholic missionariss in New Britain, the same correspondent sajs that the quarrel jw&s instigated) by Father Rasher's houseboy, who had been trained at the mission itself. There were also two raids on the station at Mavin, which were repulsed, on the Sunday morning following the x<?.ers. The natives were only too willing to participate,.as they were feeling sore about what they .regarded as a high-handed action on the pari of some of the members of the mission. | : Another element in the matter Was that the boy wanted to marry a station girl, and the members refused to allow hint to do so. It Was this " boy" who organised the affair, and shot . Father Basher with his own gun. " The body, of Father Rasher was cut in small pieces, and all the rest -were more or less mutilated. This corresponlent also reports the loss of the Roman Catholic Mission schooner Rerfo, which was driven ashore at New Ireland and broke up. ""