ARRIVAL OF THE 'MERLIN',
By tho schooner Merlin, from Fijis, this morn- j ing, we have received papers to the 28th ult. j ihe schcjpner left on the 81st ult. Wo give j the .following from W\e Fiji Times : — | SURPRISE AT! TITI LEVU.—SEYJuY j KILLKI). From Vili Levu Buy wo learn that the natives are actively parrying on hostilities, j Traders who go down there for men are in. j tho habit of using firnarins and ammunition j for barter, and in this manner the belligerents j are supplied with the '' sinowa of war." On , Saturday last tiie mountaineers sui-prised a j sinnll town on the coast, calloi! Waitui, The I modo of attack is Bijppoapd to have been su'g- ! geated 'by while uieu, and the whofe affair, ! being a Surprise resulted in the death of seven townspeople, two . chivf.-j boiqg amongst the i number. Tho viclyrd oiirrioil Tour of the j corpses away,, and'after wards nride a cannibal ', feast of tbpui. I
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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 577, 15 November 1871, Page 2
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163ARRIVAL OF THE 'MERLIN', Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 577, 15 November 1871, Page 2
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