MURDER of MISSIONARIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8417, 17 January 1899, Page 3

MURDER of MISSIONARIES.

(Electric Telegraph— Copyright— United Press Association.) (Received Jan. 17, 9.30 a.m.) Hox<i Kong, Jan. 16. The Chinese rebels in the province of Hupei murdered Father Delbnick (a Belgian priest) and burned four churches. A party of Szecliuan rebels attacked Father Fleurly, and severely maltreated him. A London correspondent writes on December 2ud:— "The hope that the Iruinor Bf the Rev. YV. S. Fleming's murder atl'aughaion November 4 tli was unfounded has been Bpeedily destroyed by a cable from Shanghai to the China Inland Mission headquarters in London. No details are given, but a letter dated August 2!) th from another missionary, Mr Bolton, which lias reached London, shows that there had been trouble in Mr Fleming's district for BOUie time past, and that both Mr Boltou and the Australian missionary's lives had been frequently threatened. 'Last night,' Mr Bolton adds, ' some men brought me in word of a plot to kill me on the JSth of the Chinese moon (five days hence), and rob the house. Their plan is this: At Kai-li, 45 li distant, the leaders of a gang of villains have killed a heifer and iv pig, cut them up, and distributed the pieces to j everyone who was willing to kill the foreigners. Forty-five individuals took tbebait."'