Truly wo are still in an age of romance. Stanley’s exploits will be green in tha memory of men when those who lived in his time have ceased to exist ; but if news from New Guinea can be relied on, there are more than Stanley capable of wonderful deeds. Jt is eaid that a tribe of natives attacked a village, but they ware beaten off by a native missionary and two men, who killed fifty of the assailants. But tho story is just a little “ too thin " for our taste. A common sense reading of the telegram would interpret it, "a native missionary and two other men wore killed on the one side, while on the side of the asssilante, whom the villagers sue* eooded in repulsing, there wore fifty killed,"
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 317, 27 June 1889, Page 2
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131Untitled Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 317, 27 June 1889, Page 2
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