HORRIBLE MURDER.
TWO SETTLERS KILLED. [moat oue owk cobeesfondent.]
July 18, 1871. A iroKHiBLE double murder has been committed b/tlie mountain tribes of Viti Levu, by which two Ba coast planters lost their jives. They were in a boat, when the natives appeared on the bank, asking them to come ashore and trade. The two unfortunates— Messrs. Mclntosh and Spiers—did 30, when they were brutally murdered, and their bodies horribly mutilated. The planters are organising an expedition to punish the murderers. The brigantine Defiance arrived this morning, with sixty-five foreign laborers. She brings Captain Bergin, and the mate of the Lulu schooner, which was wrecked dn the 10th June on Espirito Santo Island. The captain and crew took to the boat, and were chased by the natives in their canoes, but fortunately escaped to Cape Lisbon, where the mission vessel Dayspring was lying. They went into Sandwich, where they found the Defiance, which brought the captain and mate down.
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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 481, 26 July 1871, Page 2
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159HORRIBLE MURDER. Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 481, 26 July 1871, Page 2
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