RISING OF NATIVES.
MISSION BESIEGED FOR TEN ...-:. ..DAYS., .......
MURDER; OF .MISSIONARY.
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A renewal of the rising of natives on Mornington Island, , in the Gulf of Carpentaria, is ; reported.? Tlie Presbyterian Mission was besieged for 10 days, .and .the Rev. Ro bei'f Hall shot dead. His assistant,, Mr Walter Owens, was wounded^: but escaped in the mission boatwiththe wives, and children and reached , BurketoM'ji. <:
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14447, 6 November 1917, Page 7
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72RISING OF NATIVES. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14447, 6 November 1917, Page 7
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