THE ISLANDS
ALLEGED FAMINE AT FUTUNA.
Per Press Association
Auckland, March 31
Captain Allen, master of the steamer Maori, trading between Samoa and Fiji, states" that ,fcwo days before the murder of the purser Meltings at Futnua the natives of Wallace Island made what was appparoutly an attempt to capture the Maori, but they were kept clear at the point of the revolver. It was stated that the Futnua natives were starving as the result of the hurricane in April last and the assault on Mellings was supposed 'to be the outcome of their distress. The Governor of Mew Caledonia, however, states that he visited Futuna in November and that the natives then had abundant provisions and were busy planting. The copra trade had been ruined by the cyclone, but there could not, he said , be a famine.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9109, 31 March 1908, Page 5
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138THE ISLANDS Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9109, 31 March 1908, Page 5
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