News from the Islands.
(UNITED PRESS 'ASSOCIATION.) ■; Auckland, Wednesday. : The Southern Cross lias arrived from the New. Hebrides. Since "she was last here she, has been engaged oh several spacM* trips out of Fiji, .the last-beihg li>r. the purpose of returning ; 121 Polynesian, laborers. • This was effected without any serious, r, trouble. At Santa Anna Mr .McDonald and; his family, who are_ the only people on ! the isjla;nd,cbmplainetl that' the Natives had' '^ o'eeifVery troublesbiiie of late, having murdered a Native 'behind their priyate residence ; on . the day' before the: Southern Crpss called, , e afid: had also threatened \to murder Mr McDonald and tamilyi ,^he Southern Cross .has;, abput half a jdozep. Natives ( On board 'ye^ one of them being a. return laborer who jrefusedto land, for fear he should be killed" anh! ? eaten,^sb^vei-y^inn-pleaaant were, his recollections of the uehavimir of the iNatiybsf where jhe was to have been put ashore.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1475, 8 October 1885, Page 2
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150News from the Islands. Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1475, 8 October 1885, Page 2
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