LAND SALES IN NEW GUINEA.
' Dispntes about the purchase of laud in New Guinea appear to have commenced already. The " Sydney Morning Herald " publishes a letter from a surveyor named Cameron, dated 21st November, stating that he bought .12,000 acres of land a considerable distance from Port Moresby, of which lie estimated 1000 acres were fit for sugar-growing,2ooofor cotton-planting, the remainder being poor and swampy laud. The writer says that the purchase was made, as far as his experience went, in the most fair legitimate manner. He- goes on to say that after leaving the locality he heard that the natives repudiated his purchase, and he, therefore, returned to inquire into the matter. The natives informed him that Mr Chalmers, the missionary, had told them they "must not sell their laud, as» the white man would steal their women and take them away in vessels, and that if the men interfered they
would be shot and driven back into the mountains," and the natives gave him to understand he had been made out to be the advanced guard of the lowest type of villain. Eventually, however, the sale of the land was confirmed by the natives.
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Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1337, 17 December 1883, Page 2
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196LAND SALES IN NEW GUINEA. Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1337, 17 December 1883, Page 2
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