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Thames Advertiser, Volume XI, Issue 2906, 19 April 1878, Page 3

A. correspondent to the GooJctown, Herald of March 27 writes fiom Thursday Island that the New Guinea men about Katow and Sybaihave been threatening to kill the missionary teachers stationed at Cornwallis and Sybai. The teachers with their families have left, and are living at Marbiak.' It is high time we had a visit from a man-of-war. The unpunished murders of missionaries and white men are teaching these savages to regard white men with contempt. They are exhibiting the heads of those whom they have killed, and are inciting the friendly tribes to kill their teachers, Why does the rev principal live at Murray Island instead of sharing the dangers and privations of his subordinates, as a true missionary should do. Humour has it that ho is too good a general,

Thebes, in Egjpt, presents rains twenty-seven miles around. It contained 350,000 citizens and 400,000 slaves.

Political Whaling,— 1 You cannot keep me down!' shouted a radical orator at a public meeting. ' Though I may be pressed below the waves, I rise again ; you will find that I come to the surface, gentlemen.'- ' Yes,' said a conservative, who had come among the audience for the purpose o£ anthropological Btudy, ' you come to the surface to blow.'