SAMOA.
BY TELEGRAPH. . , ..Auckland, Friday. New from Samoa reports that'the natives are still, fighting. Fifty of the Government party have, been killed.' ■ The rebels’, however, 1 are starving, and are 'expected to surrender. The natives of the Friendly Group are very Insolent to Europeans., .They stole the Xlev. Mr. Baker’s boat-at Tonga'; -horses were stabbed, and the house broken.into. ' Application has been made for a resident, consul. The house of Captain Bradley,’an old resident at phia; has, been, burned- , T.he' repiaius, of, the (unfortunate man'were found in this- ruinsi l The 1 body; was charred, but it" fs' evident the fire was intended to conceal a' diabolical crime. The arms 1 and legs were'broken; and -■the skull, hammered in. Captain Bradley was an 'inoffensive man, 1 The,Rev. Mr. Watkins, mis-, uionary, has written to Governor Gordon, of Fiji, for a man-of-war to investigate the matter.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5249, 19 January 1878, Page 2
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145SAMOA. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5249, 19 January 1878, Page 2
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