Returned Kanakas.
NO INCREASE IN MURDERS. ■ ' By Telegraph.—Association.—Copyright. Melbourne, October 2. With reference to recently reported' inurdors at Malaita, in the Solomon Islands, the Federal authorities have been advised that there have probably not been more crimes than there were previous to the repatriation of kanakas ; but, now that there are more missionaries, murders have been reported which before would never have been heard of. The return of kanakas from Queensland to the Islands has bacn .proceeding for some time, and there has been considerable anxiety as to what treatment repatriated natives would _ receive, alter their sojourn in civilisation. from the less cultured 'Inlanders. In July it was reported from Malaita that, two returned boys had been shot dead, and that six had been clubbed to death, llisj Young, of the • South Seas fivangelical Mission,'described as " monstrous " the sending back to the Islands of "men and women deprived of the means of defending themselves against armed Natives."" The above cablegram puts another aspect.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 7, 3 October 1907, Page 7
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