TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 471, 1 November 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(FROM THB Pit ESS AGRNCY.)

AUCKLAND,

October 31,

A meeting of the creditors of Mr. Malcolm Nicol, shipping agent, has been held. Liabilities, L 15,000. Mr. Nicol offered ss. in the £. The meeting adjourned to consider the offer. A meeting has been held to establish another Club, the Northern Club not meeting all requirements. The following arc: the particulars of the vengeance carred out by H.M. schooner Beagle, at Tanna, New Hebrides. Tuis Island has been notorious for the murder of Europeans living on it. Apart from what occurred before, a series of murders has taken place since they commenced with Ross, Bell, Captain Daggett, and others, terminating with the locally-cele-brated affair. These ought to have caused the punishment of the murderers by the several Governments of whom they were subjects, but the murders were passed over, and the criminals (natives) began to believe in their total immunity, until at last the British Government, stirred no doubt by the utter wantonness and atrocity of the last murder, was induced to teach them a lesson. Preliminary enquiries were first undertaken, and then the Beagle was o.dered to the locality to execute the murderers. The vessel went down, and managed to p roc are the presence of a number of natives on board. At a preconcerted signal, these men were pinioned and laid on the decks. A hostage was sent from amongst their number, and procured from the shove the brother of toe murderer of the man referred to, who acknowledged that had his brother failed in his shot (which he did not) he would have fired himself. At an appointed hour this confessed criminal was hung from the yard-arm of the Beagle in the presence of the natives ashore. The body was allowed to hang for a good length of time to convince the natives of his being really dead, and then the prisoners were released, and the body was taken ashore and buritd.

November 1

The Governor has refused permission to use the Government House and grounds for the fete in aid of the Indian Famine Relief Fund, the decision being notified to the committee by the Colonial Secretary. The fete has been adjourned.