FIJIAN NEWS,
[By Telegraph.] (Per Rotorua- at the Bluff.) Sydney. March 15. It is stated that the authorities at Fiji have made representations to. the Imperial Government regarding the malpractices o£ Queensland vessels in Polynesia. The schooner Leslie, from the South Seas, reports another murder by the natives. Captain Schwartz landed on the Solomon Group to trade, and while speaking to the natives at a trader’s village was surrounded by natives and then suddenly tomahawked. The savages then rushed for the boat, but the crew regained it first, and pushed off. They followed a short distance, and then made off with the captain’s body in an opposite direction. A report has also been received that the Captain of the Black Hawk, of Melbourne, was also murdered by the natives, but the report is unconfirmed.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2496, 21 March 1881, Page 2
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134FIJIAN NEWS, South Canterbury Times, Issue 2496, 21 March 1881, Page 2
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