Murder by the South Sea Island Natives. —The missionary schooner Day Spring, which arrived at Sydney on the 30th ult. from the South : Sea intelligence of the murder of the crew of the small cutter Maria J ay. Captain Frazer reports ** The Maria Jay, Capt. Unthank left Sydney, shine time since, foV the New Hebrides, ;to trade with the natives. The vessel was only 16 tons, and left the - Island of Sandwich for one of the neighboring places, having engaged a number of natives, who rose against the crew, four in number, and murdered them all. After two days’! absence, the natives returned with the vessel to Sandwich, where the crew of the schooner Sea Wich, with the a?-’ sistance of ,sbme friendly natives, recovered the vessel.”—New Zealand Herald, 14th January.
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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 4, 28 January 1867, Page 24
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