SPECIAL CABLEGRAM.
[FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
Dunedin, Jaly 11. The following special cablegrams have been received by the Star :
There has been a wholesale massacre at New Caledonia. At Otai, Bouraie Pass, the tribes have risen, and massacred white settlers —men, women, and children, and gendarmes. In all. one hundred were murdered and terribly mutilated. IVi j military stations were taken and burned. Colonel tritely was killed while leading troops. The inhabitants have entered on a war expedition against the natives. The convicts and Communists are quiet. Several English residents are anioiegsr, the killed. Men. of war are stationed on the coast, for fear of the rising extending.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 723, 11 July 1878, Page 2
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