DISTRESSED NATIVES.
ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE STEAMER
A REVOLVER PROVES A HANDY THING.
Press Association. AUCKLAND, March 31. Captain Allen, master of the steamer Maori, trading between Samoa and. Fiji, states that two days before the murder of Purser Mellings at .Futuna the natives of Wallace Island made what was apparently an attempt to capture the Maori. They were kept clear at the point of a revolver. It .is stated tliat the Futuna natives were starving as the result of a hurricane in April last, and the assault oh Mellings was supposed to bo the outcome or their distress, but the Governor of New Caledonia states that ho visited Futuna in November, that tlie natives had abundant provisions and were very busy planting copra. Trade has been ruined by a cyslone, but tliero could bo no famine.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2154, 1 April 1908, Page 4
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136DISTRESSED NATIVES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2154, 1 April 1908, Page 4
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