[PER GREVILLE'S TELEGRAPH COMPANY, REUTER'S AGENTS.]

Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1022, 4 November 1871, Page 2

[PER GREVILLE'S TELEGRAPH COMPANY, REUTER'S AGENTS.]

MURDER OF BISHOP PATTESON, BISHOP OF MELANESIA, THE REV. J. ATKIN, AND A NATIVE TEACHER, AT NUKAPU. Auckland, Nov. 1. Arrived —The Southern Cross, Missionary schooner. She brings the intelligence of the murder of the Bishop of Melanesia, the Rev. J. Atkin and a Native teacher. The murder was committed at Nukapu, a small reef island in the Swallow Group. Bishop Patteson visited the island annually on friendly terms with the inhabitants. On this occasion he went ashore in a canoe, accompanied by only two natives from the schooner. A short time afterwards the schooner's boat was manned, and the Rev. J. Atkin, a teacher, and others put off for the shore. A number of canoes full of islanders attacked this boat, fatally wounding Mr Atkin and the native teacher. The Bishop, was at this time ashore. The schooner's boat again attempted to effect a landing, when the islanders were observed turning a canoe adrift, which the schooner's boat picked up, and found iv it the Bishop's body frightfully mutilated, and his head smashed. There is no doubt but that the deed was caused by exasperation of the islanders in consequence of the visits of labor vessels, which are reported as kidnapping at the various islands, and sometimes taking the women. Mr Lennox reports Caledonians at Llls to L 12 0; Thames, L 24. Wellington, Nov. 3. The English mail brings intelligence that Mr Walter Turnbull's two eldest sons have been drowned in the River Tweed, near Peebles, Scotland. Dunediit, Nor. 3. Flour in good demand, at Ll3 to Ll3 10s ; bran: overstocked, at L 2 10s; wheat: quiet, and little done, best samples 5s ; oats. milling, 2s 2d. Wanganui, Nov. 3. Mr Low reports having sold 89 fat cattle, at L 5; 77 steers, three and four years, at L 3 12s 6d ; eight cows, L2l6s ; 123 steers and heifers, L 2 2s 6d; 56 yearlings, LI 2s 6d; sheep, 12s. Oamabu, Nov. 3. Grain Market. —Stocks light; no de. mand ; wheat, 4s 6d ; oats, 2s ; flour, Ll3; oatmeal, LI4; potatoes, scarce, at L 4; pollard, L 4 ; bran, L 2. Okbistohurch, Nov. 3. Stocks of wheat almost exhausted; buyers decline giving more than 4s, even for best samples ; oats in good request for home consumption and shipment to West Coast, at 2s 7d to 2s 9d; barley: no sales ; potatoes : scarce, at high rates 1 hams |and bacon, 6d to 7sd. Knottingley is first favorite for the Canterbury Cup. Lyttbmon, Nov. S. Sailed—Aurora, for Wertport. "