NEWS FROM POLYNESIA.
Nkw Otixea. Intelligence received at Oooktown from New Guinea reports that a great number of men in the digging party are sick. Matters were very critical when the Sappho arrived with welcome supplies of medicine. No .cold is reported yet, although strong color is. aaid to have been obtained.
Judge Beveand lias been sworn in Acting Governor. Commander Moore of the Alacrity, lias been fined L2O for a breach of the quarantine regulations. A Chinaman has been fined LIOO for smuggling opium, There is gweat dissatisfaction >v Crown grants. A party of Native officers sent by Ratu Eskiliyako to capture an offender, committed a great outrage. They confined all the male inhabitants of the village in one hotel and the females in another, and subjected the latter, despite their cries and struggles, to indiscriminate violation, ( )d the intelligence reaching the European (ili",c(T at Noumea, he ordered all the uff'unu'.-i'S to be punished.
Line Islands. A German at Line Islands has been murdered by the natives. Solomon Islands.
News received shows that it was not Wright who was killed, but a man named. Townsend. Another named Coy, who was employed by him, was speared and seriously injured.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 731, 13 August 1878, Page 2
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