Desperate Fight With the Savages.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1730, 10 June 1886, Page 4

Desperate Fight With the Savages.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOOIAT ION) '/ DuNEpiN, Wednesday. ; , Hobart papers by the Doric contain .the following telegram from Brisbane :V —The schooner Young Dick, whici has! arrived at Maryborough, reported that a; desperate conflict with the Natives ocpurred at Malayta Island on May 30,; resulting m the death of about fifteen* persons, including; Mr Popliarn, Government,agent, and Marten, the cook, the! sajlmaker, a recruit, and about a dozem Natives. While the captain and, two boats' crews were ashore recriiiting,aboufc - fifty Natives, with their tomahaws con-' cealedin the yams and leaves, boarded > the yessel m canoes ostensibly to recruit, ; and at a signal given by a chief, the entire party attacked the ere w. The mate, .Mr Marr, threw off his assailants, and seized the firearms on board and successfully defended himself from the half closed door of the cabin. A seaman named Guttendon, who was asleep below, hastened on deck with arms, and encountered the Natives. lie then ascended the forctop and shot down a "number of suv.ioos ana forced thimi to rotre.it. He thx-n descended and roic.isod the mat 1 , whoso rifle was bi'okun, aivl who was incapable ol further li^ht. K'.j 'also" shot ano'uer <v,va<ie whom ho fiinnd m th ■ c ar> iln's cabin. Tlsey then armed tlu- rpcrnt-,, 'ii.inji'.rii; 14, with tomah n\'k^. Mil ABi'v i^vpiifuil to resist n, sec > r ; i .ivL.'k, \-\ loli was t'lrciiunod, b::t iii ,1 o•' (..:)*» -L. 0 : l\o •• u/r ; nN 1"' i l/~ i." "'■ " - Nl > • 1 •■■ iw hi." .1) C!" c.ip. .»3 »i wl i. 'i' ■> \. I '''I 1..'!'. if uun woi.' lii.iu 1 ' to pico./-. aiidi'nc! Ur'.mti -.Vvre \> „.if.C'"-t ./ii.ia^ tl>o ''dch- Jlr Pc t jii:iiii ■". us I;, m,; ii \>x3 cilJin „iih pen ami p.ipcr m hit. iiinrl- :;ni fiis n</xl splii, oppu. One ie n i % -!!t who "joined m Hid resistance and hvo lvalue* who were shot weie I3IIIJJ "bont x ho decks. ALirr and Cutlpn'lon avoi 1 Ihattiiey shot nmny others who went overiuurd. Tlit; bodies from tlio vea=ul were buried, at sea, and the Young Dick s,iilt>d home. The brig Janet Steward was attacked successfully and looted at iho came jjlaco by the same tribe five years ago.