COMMONWEALTH ITEMS
vi ABORIGXNKS' MISSION' DBSTItOYED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. BERTH. April 4. A police telegram from Kroontu indicalcs that the Roman Gatholic aborigines’ mission at Drysdule. in tlie north-, west, .lias been wiped out. It was established in 1908. tincl consisted of two fathers, six lay brethren and some halfcastes. The master of a schooner taking supplies found no house hut traces of a fire and some human bones In them. The Protector of the Aboriginals doubts the story. Tie thinks the schooner has visited the wrong place, lie admits that the natives in the vicinity are violently hostile.
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Southland Times, Issue 17619, 6 April 1914, Page 6
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