Was Murdered
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50 Years Singe Chalmers
FIFTY years ago on April 8, the Rev, James Chalmers and his missionary associate, Oliver Tompkins, of the London Missionary Society, were killed by cannibals on Goaribari Island, Fly River Papua.
The jubilee of the martyrdom of these two missionaries was celebrated in Aus tralian Congregational Churches on Sun day, April 8.
Chalmers was one of the earliest missionaries in Papua, having been sent there in 1877 by the London Missionary Society. Mission stations along the Papuan coast are a lasting memorial to his early work.