AUSTRALIA.
[ebxtteb’s telegram.] SYDNEY, January 31. Arrived, yesterday—Ringarooma, from Auckland. PolynesianH.M S. Emerald reports that she has recently visited the scenes of the Sandfly, Zephyr, and Borealis massacres in the Solomon Group. She shelled the places and burned down many villages. Tho Natives generally had absconded, but armed boats’ crews were repeatedly sent ashore, and one Native was killed and another taken prisoner at Brooker Island, The Emerald briags two witnesses of tho massacre. MELBOURNE, January 31. RacingThe Geelong Handicap was won, by Wellington.
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2164, 1 February 1881, Page 2
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