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Freethought Review, Volume II, Issue 14, 1 November 1884, Page 8

It was at Lithgow that the plate was sent round at a choral | wedding service. Very practical joker that parson. There are two missionary items from New Guinea which musn’t miss the light. One is that when Mr. Cameron’s sur- j vey party, bent purely on scientific research, reached the island, they found the natives primed with the slander that they (the surveyors) were the advance members of the lowest typo of villains and scoundrels. Mr. Cameron leaves it to bo inferred that the missionaries were the authors of the slander being loath to have their cocoa-nut oil field invaded. The other item of gospel importance is that, as the traveller proceeds inland in New Guinea he finds the natives possessing a livelier sense of decency than those living in the districts captured by the missionaries. •