BRISBANE.
Intelligence has been received that several of the London Missionary Society's missionaries stationed in the district west of Port Morsby were murdered early in March. The llev. Mr. Beswick narrowly escaped the same fate as the teachers, who were principally Lifu men. The report, however, has not been confirmed. Later. A Cooktown telegram confirms tho massacres at New Guinea. The news was brought to Thuisday IslancJ by Captain Dudfield, who arrived there with the missionary sohooncr. Tho following telegram was despatched by the Police magistrate at Thursday Island to the Colonial Secretary :—" Mr. Beswick has reported the massacre of twelve persons at Kalo, New Guinea, on March 7, namely, four teachers, two of their wivtsa, four children, and two native servants. jEtyur natives escaped by swimming. The massacre was unprovoked, and is clearly the vesuH of previous murders remaining un-
punished. The teachers from the outlying stations have been removed to Port Moresby."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 1293, 9 April 1881, Page 2
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154BRISBANE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 1293, 9 April 1881, Page 2
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