NEW CALEDONIA.
jjSltecial Wire.] [Via Auckland.] At Kerd the fires of hostile natives were Been in a vafloy some miles distant, and the friendly chief Oatteliar went out with 200 men. They surrounded a group of fifteen men engaged in roasting a bullock". J. He friendlies slaughtered the fifteen enemies, put the roast bullock aside, and replaced it with the fifteen dead bodies, which were cooked and eaten, after which the warriors returned with appeased appetites. Numbers of the enemy were killed in recent engagements. Twenty-eight women and children were taken prisoners. Naounan, chief of the Manifo tribe, offered to surrender, with 150 men, if their lives were spared-
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Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1528, 10 January 1879, Page 3
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109NEW CALEDONIA. Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1528, 10 January 1879, Page 3
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