TRAGEDY AT THE NEW HEBRIDES. CAPTAIN OF A SCHOONER SHOT. Auckland, June 13.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 377, 15 June 1889, Page 5

TRAGEDY AT THE NEW HEBRIDES. CAPTAIN OF A SCHOONER SHOT. Auckland, June 13.

Further particulars to hand by the Sydney mail supplement the cablegram received a few days ago statins* that the master of the schooner Colonist had been .shot az^d killed by his supercargo in Havannah Harbour, Sandwich Island, in the New Hebrides Group. The master was William Greenless, who was well known in Sydney, as was also his supercargo, Henry Ernest Weaver, It appears that on the 22nd ult., H.M.s. Lizard was lying in Havannah Harbour at anchor, and a boat went off from her to the Colonist, moored near by, on the report of firearms on board being heard. On boarding the schooner it was found that the captain had been shot while lying in his berth, and the body subsequently carried up and laid on the main hatchway. The supercargo was arrested by the officer from the Lizard. A. sheath-knife and two revolvers were taken from him, and he was conveyed to the Lizard, where the evidence of the mate of the schooner and other eye witnesses ot the murder was taken. The motive for the murder is as yet unknown. Subsequently H.M.s. Opal arrived at Havannah Harbour from Noumea, and Captain Bosanquet, as senior officer and Deputy Commissioner for the Western Pacific, assembled a High Commis?ion Court on May 23id. The result of the inquiry was that Weaver was committed for trial on a charge of wilful murder, and was remanded to the Court at Fiji. He and the witnesses were to be sent to Suva by the A.U.S.jSL Co.'s steamer Gunga, due at Havannah from Sydney.