An Incredible. Story.
The Cairns Telegraph is responsible for the following extraordinary story : — " During the month of October last several Kanakas and a white man engaged at a cedar camp thirty miles from Cairns amused themselves by going into an aboriginals' camp with loaded revolvers and large scrub knives. They captured twelve blacks, and after wounding them, caught each by the hair of his head and chopped if off from the body. One old man, who could apeak a little broken English, after being caught, oriei piteously, and said, ' No kill me, me die man, ao go along camp, 1 , but his entreaties dij not save him. The same mob captured a lit'le blaok boy which they fancied, and upoa coming near their cedar camp they caught hold of the child's legs and dashed his brains out against a tree. The aboriginals were a harmless inoffensive lot, and our informant says they did not do the least thing whatever. Such a cold, cruel, bloody, horrid crime we will not beliove has been perpetrated, until evidence proves or disproves this statement." '
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 91, 24 March 1883, Page 2
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180An Incredible. Story. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 91, 24 March 1883, Page 2
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