INTERCOLONIAL.
Sydney, Monday. Arrived, yesterday — Riugarooma, from Auckland. H.M.S. Emerald reports that she has recently visited the scenes of the Sandfly, Zephyr, and Borealis massacres in the Solomon groupe. She shelled the places and burned down many villages. The natives generally had absconded, bufc armed boat's crews were repeatedly sent ashore and one native was killed and another taken prisoner at Brooke's Island. The Emerald brings two witnesses of the massacre.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 27, 1 February 1881, Page 2
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71INTERCOLONIAL. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 27, 1 February 1881, Page 2
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