SYDNEY.
March 14. The schooner Leslie has arrived from the Solomon Islands, and reports that the master was murdered there by the natives, and that a rumor wa3 current when she left that Captain Laurie, of the schooner Black Hawk, had also been murdered. News from the Mount Brown diggings states that the water tbere is exhausted, and the population has shifted six miles. One man perished from exhatsstion while proceeding to the field, and it is feared great loss of life will take place unless rain falls.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3031, 14 March 1881, Page 3
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88SYDNEY. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3031, 14 March 1881, Page 3
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