MISCELLANEOUS.
•» A sarcastic Melbourne correspondent of the Bulletin remarks, that ibe sympathy with crime and lawlessness I is so general and strong in Victor's I that, were a plebiscite taken tomorrow on tlie subject, Ned Kelly j would be released aud made chief com* missiouer of police. A boat containing seven men, sur* vivors of the crew of the Chinese junk Stnonev. arrived in Cooktown on the 27tb, and report that on July 30. h the ! u:\tives of Key Guinea attacked the Chinese in revenge, it is alleged, for their m^cooduct to uative . womerv Seven of the Chinese were killed, and the vessel taken and plundered. The beads of the slaughtered Chinese were marred on spears as trophies through ihe district. The Eev>, Messrs Beswick and Chalmers, who send the report to the poiice magistrate, recommend that steps be taken to punish the natives, this being the third outrage in two ■ years. The junk was built at Cook* town, nod owned by naturalized Bri* tish subjects/
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Inangahua Times, Volume II, 25 October 1880, Page 2
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166MISCELLANEOUS. Inangahua Times, Volume II, 25 October 1880, Page 2
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