OUTRAGES IN THE SOUTH SEAS. British Reprisals. -Proposed Censure. London, March 16.
The attention of the Oovernnienfc has been drawn to thepublished accounts of the cruise of the H.M.S. Diamond, of the Australian Squadron, amongst the Pacific Islands in and Octobor and November last, when, in order to punish the natives of some of the islands for tho murder of British settlers, villages were burnt and canoes and other proporty destroyed as an alternative course on tho native chiefs rofusiug to hand over the murderers. The Government has been urged to take action with a view of marking their disapprovol of the conduct of the officers of the Diamond, but they have decided to wait until the official report of the ciui^e is received before expressing- an opinion as to whether the action taken was censurable or otherwise.
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Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 147, 27 March 1886, Page 5
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138OUTRAGES IN THE SOUTH SEAS. British Reprisals. -Proposed Censure. London, March 16. Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 147, 27 March 1886, Page 5
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