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Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 30, 12 August 1863, Page 3

Furthea news of slavers in the Pacific has been received in Sydney* A fine armed barque of 400 tons, with captain and officers of Spanish cut, of various names, and hoisting various colors, was at Sunday Island, to sail thence for Callao on the Ist July. Landed 300 islanders there to recruit, taken from the Duke of York, Clarence, and other islands. Some were so weak that they were drowned in the surf whilst landing. Eighty died soon after. Twenty-two Europeans and half-castes were settled at Sunday Island, growing supplies for whalers, but, catching disease from the people landed, eight died; the remainder abandoned the island, and went to Upolu in the schooner Emily, the slaver having first seized all their stock. The barque met a trading canoe off Upolu, and took natives and all property out of her, and sent her European owner adrift* without food or water, out of sight of land. But he reached Upolu in two days. The barque is one of a fleet of seven. The islands visited have been nearly depopulated, only very old men and a few women and young children being left; the remainder were driven by force to the boats, and all resisting were killed. The barque got under weigh whenever a strange sail appeared. Some of the islanders would possibly escape by taking to the mountains. This statement is communicated to the Melbourne papers by telegraph from Sydney.— Otago Daily Times. "In short, ladies and gentlemen," said an overpowered orator. "I can only say—beg leave to add—l desire to assure you that I wish I had a window in my bosom, that you might see the emotion of my heart." Vulgar boy from the gallery ; " Won't a pane in your stomach do this time?"