The Singapore Free Press publishes the following special telegram Labuan, 12th July.
The British North Borneo Government Station at Gaya was attacked by. sixty rebels under Mat Salleh on Sunday morning.
"Phe town and Government Treasury, were burnt and looted.
One police corporal and two prisoners were killed.
Ins. S. Neubronner, the Treasurer, has been taken prisoner.
Mr. Godfrey Hewett and Mr, Joseph Wheatley have left Labuan this' morning in the steamer Raneewith eight Dyak police.
They should reach Gaya at noon to-di [On the 23rd of September list, three North Borneo officials, Messrs. Flint, Dunlop and Little, with their police force, attacked the fort erected by Mat Salleh, the notorious brigand, outlaw, and murderer, and compelled him and his followers to take to flight into the interior, leaving several dead unburied. The captured stockade was burnt.
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