AUSTRALIAN CABLES

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXI, Issue 8959, 7 December 1905, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN CABLES

IBr Electric Telegraph.—Copyright

(Per Press Association'.) Received December 6, at 10.7 p.m. Melbourne, December 6

Mr Cook, Leader of the Opposition, speaking on the second reading of the IVoi to amend the Immigration Restriction Act. sympathised with the objects of the ho;. It- was useless for Australia to expect :.> remain isolated from the world. He cs.vtainlv had not until the recent war in 1 ' East, realised the high pitch of civilisation and power attained by Japan. When he saw the great nation taking its seat at the council of Powers, they had to »,v: themselves whether they should not enth a vor to remain in amity with its peop.:. Force was still the power that ruled toe world, and we must, willy-nilly, respe i the fact that still the ideal of a While Australia must be kept in view. The influx oi' Hindoos into the Fijis was an example of the danger that had to be apprehended when once those people got a foot- j ing. ! Received December 7, at 0.14 a.m. j

Sydney, December 6.

! Particulars of the massacre of the misj sionaries at Lunchau show that it was titerribly atrocious affair. Those butchered and mutilated were the Rev. and Mrs Peale and Mrs Machle, Miss Chestnut, and the child Amie Machle, while Dr Maeiiir(head of the mission) and Dr Eleanor Patterson escaped. When the party escaped from the mission house they took refuge in the temple. A crowd followed and burst in the door. 1)r Machle escaped i.-y stretching himself flat- out in the wart'.', and Miss Patterson escaped by hiding a well. In the massacre the women captured were stripped naked and exposed to the vast crowd. Little Amie Machle first met- her death. After she had been dragged with Miss Chestnut from the cave to tile river bank naked, they were compelled to stand in front of the villainous natives, and then flung uninjured into the rive'-. Miss Chc-stnut being able to swim struck, out to a small sandbank, whilst Aude clung to some shrubs in the river. For some ten minutes they were left alone by the crowd, who were engaged in looking at Mrs Machle. who had meantime been discovered. I'ltimately a heartless sav- I age waded out into the river, and drove a three-pronged instrument through Annie Machle's skull, whilst others ran similar weapons through Miss Chestnut's body. Streaming with blood, tho bodies were dragged ashore, shockingly mutilated, beaten and stabbed and slashed into a state to defy recognition, and then hurled into the river again. Then Mrs Machle was dragged to the bank, her clothes torn from her, and she was exposed naked to the ridicule of the jeering crowd. She ex postulated with-them on the folly of their deeds, when one man rushed at her with a stone and knocked her skull in. Almostsimultaneously a spear was run through lier body, and in a moment all who could strike tiie quivering flesh were beating it with clubs and slashing it to pieces. Then the corpse was thrown into the stream. An interval of half an hour elapsed before the crowd found anyone else. They then discovered the Rev. and Mrs Peale, and dragging tho unhappy couple out of their hiding place stripped them of their clothin:: and stood them upon a platform in full view of the crowd. They were kept thov. about half an hour, and during that time were forced to submit to most scandalous conduct. At last one blood-thirsty wrcf-'i crept up behind Peale and felled him the ground with a- heavy stone, Peale falling at the feet of his wife. The mob cc;npelled her to look on while they spcarc-1 the body through, and mutilated it with clubs and bamboos until it- was a. shapcV:--: mass. Mrs Peale did not have to sui'frr long in her agony. A crash from a c'iil, relieved her of her senses, and falling to tho ground the body was treated like all the rest. i

Received December 7, at 0.45 a.m

Sydney. December 6. Sailed (3.15 p.m.)— Manuka. Wool—There is brisk competition feline greasv. which touched scou:\;i 21 ?d. Melbourne, December 6. Sailed—Malieno.