UNREST IN SOLOMON ISLANDS.
-—- - —— . EXTENSA Gil BUYING. THREATENED INSURKEGT-iON; J3t stoleEmDli- i Prios9 jU»ol6#o.a-<)oi>yruz!»t Bfisbano, November 21, Planters from the Solomon Islands report unrest fttnong the natives in the poup, gun-running, and a threatened HiSnrrcctioiij. Recently a number of rifles and three thousand' rounds of ammunition. wero Seized.' aboard a -fossei at 'JPulgai.. , Previously a Japanese craft had been detained on Suspicion) of giut-rtinijing, find the, captain was fined £300. Tlio fine was not forthcoming, and tho Government la now -lyogeti.atinjr for the paie of the vessel. The natives are offering big price, s for guns and ammunition. Tho headquarters at the Melanesinn Mission a,t Cheisout lias been fortified against a threatened' attack by natives. Cannibalism is: still, prevalent on | some of the island)?. Tito months, ago' a. comple- of hoys were killed and eaten at San Cristoval. Tivo of tho murderers of the settler Keller were captured and sentenced to death. According to. their story, the chief of the district offered shell monoy to the value of £1 for the head of a white man, ,
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1913, 22 November 1913, Page 5
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176UNREST IN SOLOMON ISLANDS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1913, 22 November 1913, Page 5
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