SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE.
Sydney, November 27. Fenlon and Sons, of Rochdale, bankers, have failed for £500,0(10. Melbourne, undated. The Embassy proposals have been defeated. Ai ler a great, meeting the strike remains uncompromised, NEW CALEDONIA. An action took place on the 19th, when the natives in great force attacked Kbio and Kavo simultaneously. The engagement lasted from noon till sunset; the natives were defeated with a loss of thirty killed and seventy wounded. Thirteen settlers were barbarously massacred on the 20eh, near Ihe River Poya. Six thousand Chassepot cartridges were taken. As (he mail was leaving Manors nine settlers were brulallv massaged in the outlying district, only settlers were killed, no soldiers were on the ground. The shocking inactivity of the military is freely commented on.
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Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1492, 27 November 1878, Page 2
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