NOTES ON CURRENT EVENTS.
..-,,■ r. -■■ .■ . i ■ ' V^M.S. Miranda lias returned <lo Port Jackson after a very exciting: cruise imtmg the New '•'Hebrides,'"-' Besides in- , quiring into and settling a nuraber of • otri plaint*, Captain Acland.paidia visit' tt Uushrmn's Bay, and punished the mtives by shelling; and destroying their • yilage, for the 1 murder of Captafn Daniel Leahy, master' of the sohooner John Hunt, who was speared at that Bay on the 13th Juljj while recruiting labor. ,The, murdereiß were not captured but tha^ natives vere severely punished' by the f guns of the Miranu v a. Captain! Acland also viswd Api lalauc?,v where last yeaa the Govirnmenit agent And two; men of the labo 1 schooner- Lavin.ia were massacred. , ifter several atteippts he failed ( to secnc Ihe murderers^ arid, therefore, Captain'Acland tauglititHera by 1 destroyng the village and plantations. Upon hs return to Bushman's pay Cap"■...tain A<lan,d learned that seyeral natives had ben killed by the fire "froni;the; Miranla. , , ;'
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 16, 17 December 1884, Page 2
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159NOTES ON CURRENT EVENTS. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 16, 17 December 1884, Page 2
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