ANOTHER MASSACRE BY ISLANDERS

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2094, 9 November 1880, Page 3

ANOTHER MASSACRE BY ISLANDERS

[By Tbibqeaph.] AUCKLAND, November 9. News via Noumea states that the cutter Idahoe was engaged in recruiting for labor at the island of Sante. On the evening of her arrival from Noumea the natives came and promised to return in the morning with recruits. Two canoes, with about a dozen men each, came aboard, bartering bananas in a friendly manner and most of them speaking good broken English. On their arrival the •hip’s boat in charge of a native crew, under the orders of a native named Sammade, made a trip ashore. As soon as she was gone the natives left the cutter for their canoes to get tomahawks, and returned to the vessel armed. They gradually surrounded McMillan, who was at the stern of the vessel cleaning firearms, and suddenly split his head open with a tomahawk. There -was no other whites aboard, but three Natives and seven recruits. These were attacked; two were killed and a boy wounded and pitched into the hold, where two Natives ■ought refuge. These two men seizing muskets menaced the Natives, who cleared out, plunging into the sea. Simultaneously, the boat’s crew were attacked, and all killed, save Sam and Santo Charlie. As soon as the attack began Sam plunged into the sea, and made for a distant point of land, and concealed himself in sight of the vessel until all was quiet, and then swam off. He then heaved anchor, and sailed the vessel as best ho could, aided by the two left of the crew and the recruits, for several days. They were •ighted by the Lady Belmore, 140 miles from the scene of the outrage.