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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2145, 22 March 1870, Page 2

Tragical Occurrence at the Bay of Islands. —A deplorable circumstance occurred at the Bay of Islands last week, showing the extreme folly of masters of whalers in employing natives to capture runaway seamen. It appears that on Friday last two seamen belonging to one of the whalers in port, made their escape from the ship. On the following day, the master finding they wore missing, engaged three Maoris to track their. The runaway sailors wore soon caught, and one of them gave hims If up, but the other, who was armed with a revolver, refused to be taken, and said be would fire upon tfce first man who attempted to capture him. One of the natives, named Ben Hamone, made an attempt to capture him, when the sailor tired and shot him through the chest. He also fired another bullet, which penetrated his left side. The other two Maoris then followed up the sailor, and succeeded in overtaking him. A desperate struggle ensued, and the sailor was eventually brought to the ground by a blowon the back of the head by one of the Maoris, which rendered him senseless. He wos th'-n conveyed back to the ship. When the Coquette left the Bay, Hamone was lying in a very precarious state, and it was not expected that he would recover.—Auckland Ertning Star. Why is a stove an agreeable affair in sum-m-or as well as in winter ? Because at cither season it is always grateful when coaled. A Western gentleman refused to subscribe towards paying for a church chandelier on the ground that nobody in town could “ plav on it.” 1 J A lady complaining that her husband was dead to fashionable amusements, he replied “ But thou > 111 y dear, you make me alive to the expense.