[?]istoric Papers

Found at Daru

7ALUABLE documents relating r to the massacre of the Rev.

James Chalmers, the Rev. liver Tomkins, and a number of ission students at Goaribari iland in 1901 have been found at aru.

It is understood that the papers ere lost during the Second World J ar, and were subsequently found y a Native Clerk, whose father irefully preserved them.

Recently this man handed them ) the Rev. L. Allen, of the London lissionary Society, who passed the apers to the District Commissioner t Daru, Mr. F. A. Champion. They re now at Port Moresby awaiting espatch to the archives of the lommonwealth National Library t C&nbGrrs, The papers include the original eport of a statement made to the lesident Magistrate, Mr. C. G.

Murray, at Daru shortly after the nurders by one of the natives rrested for complicity in the rime. . . .

There is also part of the original ;orrespondence between Queensland ifficials at Thursday Island and the Daru Magistrate regarding the lespatch of 16 officers and men of he Royal Australian Artillery rom Thursday Island to help the

British New Guinea authorities in the arrest of the murderers.

Some of the documents were written on board the Lieutenant- Governor’s yacht Merrie England while this craft was in the Gulf of Papua during the Lieutenant- Governor’s investigation of the tragedy. The file includes a report written on Government House

notepaper bearing the United Kingdom crest, and the words, "Government House, British New Guinea.”

AMr A. S. Newman, the new Government Storekeeper, Fiji, is expected to arrive from Nigeria in July.