SOUTH SEAS.
massache on boaujo a babou sine. The labor schooner Cambria was attacked by natives at the Solomon Islands. Me-srs Warburton, Kington, Eohson, Whittaker, Levuka settlers, and a sailor named Medera were all massacred. The murderers of Warburton’s party—recently-arrived Solomon Islanders—were being conveyed to I.aviuua when they rose on the crew. After the murders they went off with the cutter Mewa. Four vessels have been sent in pursuit. In reference to the above, the Ary us says there appears a probability that things are not quite so bad as they seem. The following telegram from the Chief Secretary of Fiji has at his request been supplied to us by Messrs Grcville and Co. It is dated Levuka, Key. 4 “ A rumor has reached |hla Government that Mr Warburton and four other Europeans have been captured and murdered at sea by a party of foreign laborers. An expedition has gone in search of them, as some doubts exist as to the truth of the statement.”
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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2738, 25 November 1871, Page 3
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165SOUTH SEAS. Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2738, 25 November 1871, Page 3
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