67 Years Since Bishop Patteson's
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Murder
THE 67th anniversary of the murder of Dr. John Coleridge Patteson, Bishop of Melanesia, by natives at Nukapu, in the Santa Cruz group on Sep tember 20, 1871, was celebrated in Auck land on September 20 by the Bishop of Melanesia (Rt. Rev. W. H. Baddeley).
The murder of Bishop Patteson was due to a tragic error. The bishop had for years protested unavailingly against the iniquities of recruiters of kanaka labour impersonating missionaries to faci litate kidnapping. Bishop Patteson visited Nukapu, and at the request of two na tives, went ashore in a native canoe instead of in his own boat. He was clubbed to death in a native hut ashore, his body, rolled in a native mat, being recovered from a canoe turned adrift from the shore.
Mr. J. Hayes, of the accounts branch of the B.N.G. Trading Co., Port Moresby.
Papua, arrived in Brisbane recently by the “Montoro” on leave.
Pilot Norm. Fader has left the services of Mandated Airlines, Ltd., New Guinea and is now flying with Guinea Airways.
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