ISLAND NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 7068, 14 February 1893, Page 3

ISLAND NEWS.

MUTINY AND MOHDSF. (By Teiegbaph.) AUCKLAND Feb 14. Arrived-Richmond, 5.8., from Tahiti and ' Baratonga. She reports a mutiny and murder at sea on the American barque Yesper, of San Francisco. The barque put into Tahiti on January 27th, bound from Newcastle (New South Wales) to Honolulu with coals, in charge of Captain Sodergen. He reported that tha crew murdered the second mate; that ho and his wife and the ohief officer and steward were in peril of their lives. The crew were arrested and will be sentto San Francisco for trial,per barque D«rra. Two of the prisoners turned Slate’s evidence. The crew were under the impression that the captain bad in his possession a considerable sum of money, and propcccd to kill the captain and officers, and get possession of the ship and gold. Cn January 13th the second mate, named Fitzgerald, was decoyed forward and killed with the cook’s chopper, and his body thrown overboard. The killing of the "aplaiD and bib's was put off, the crow sayl;g they had doao enough for one night. B anwhile the captain and male were alarmed Hk kept the deck for a fortnight. Uhe crew oil shipped at Newcastle Richmond reports that there are cots of a good coffee crop in the Hervey Oranges are also doing well in Baramissionary of the London Mission ■ objects to the British Resident’s action with the liquor laws in the HHv Group. au' horities in Tahiti have made tariff, placing prohibitive British goods, so as to remove the of New Zealand exporters, who trade in meat and provisions to steamer Richmond. The new be enforced in New Caledonia, French authorities are making ex’paraUcna for the repression of likely to be tried in consequence duties.