WAR IN NEW CALEDONIA.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 818, 26 November 1878, Page 2

WAR IN NEW CALEDONIA.

[FROM OCR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, Via Sydney, Nov. 26.

The rebels still infest the Boulapari district, ami, notwithstanding that they are only armed with spears, clubs, flings, and a few guns, they have night after night attacked their well-armed white enemies, burning dwellings under the very noses of the soldiers. The settlers keep horses saddled ready for attack, but the savages disappear before they can catch even a glimpse of them. The soldiers, with a large body of friendlies,however,are wearyingthem outandreducingtheirnumber. Ahorriblecase of ferocity has come to light, one of the rebels burned out the eyes of a woman because she refused to go with him. Fifteen soldiers and two friendlies attacked the rebels in the rocky fastness, but found the passage barred by timber barricades, and impossible to penetrate. The fiic-ndlies bohaved ■ well. Various stations visited by the troops were found devastated, and a number of corpses from the massacre in September were found in a marsh. Lately the Colonel found a leg of a European freshly cooked. Expeditions arc i*ent out constantly from Bourail and Boulapari, generally with the result of the capture' of a number of prisoners, and a number of killed. The troops intend to employ dynamite to drive the rebels out of the rocky fastnesses.