BEUTAL MURDER BY SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS.
The labor schooner Borough Belle, Oaptain Williams, arrived at Mack ay early on the morning of Bth July, after an absence of four and a half months. She bringo 54 boys for (ho plantations m this district (says the " Mercury ") :— The Borough Belle loft Ma:kay on the Ist March with 130 retcrns, and on the 21st sighted the light off Noumea, and then beat round the Pines ; on the 25th anchored m Vila Harbor, Sandwich Islands, and took m wocd, water, and yamsj left 27th for Ap'fl, Malicolo, and the other islands corth, landing returns with all despatch. On April 11, at Malo, Mr De Lautour, an ex-Government agent, but now a trader there, came on board and reported the massacre of three boatmen belonging to the schooner Mary Anderson, under exceptionally brute I circumstances. They were first severely wounded to render them helpless, and tied hands and feot, find taken m canoes over to another island and sold for plga The purchasers then finished them, and had a cannibal feast on the bodies.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1635, 13 August 1887, Page 3
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180BEUTAL MURDER BY SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1635, 13 August 1887, Page 3
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