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Show INTER-TRIBAL FIOHTS. Terrible Maaere or Natives bj Tacerl Head Hunter. Shortly before the steamer Moann, .left Sydney, official dispatches arrived from New Guinea telling of Intor-trlbal fights and massacres. The Tugeri head hunters had attacked the San Ana villages and killed a large number and carried off many heads. The San Ana afterward attacked the Tugeri. Sir F. P. Winter, administrator of New Guinea, wires tho governor-general of Australia: "Since my arrival In this possession more natives have been ruthlessly massacred by other natives within u radius of thirty miles from tho house lu which I um now writing than have during such period becu killed in this possession by the Tugeri, A village on tho Laroki river, distant not more than six hours walk from this house, was ucarly exterminated." |