NEW CALEDONIA.
The war correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald says the io.'i } number of victims known to be massacred is close upon 150. Thirty-two dead be 'ies of Kanakas hare been found. Every one died of gunshot wounds. The latest news is that a detachment of infantry surprised the rebels at a village named Ambo, and killed twenty ; burnt the village and a considerable quantify of provisions, etc. In this encounter a second column of soldiers who approached on the other side by a night march were by mistake fired upon by their comrades, forlunately without any injurious iesult ere the error was discovered. It is reported that the insurgents are becoming bard up for provisions, as must of course be the case, they having no means of storing any quantity of food even if possessed of it.
Nothing new from the revolted districtsParts of the Island are perfectly quiet, except a native feud at Poya, north of Bourail.
The weather continues very hot. Settlers look-forward to another hard summer if plentiful rains do not soon come.
Official information has been leceived that troops will arrive from France and Cochin China.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2968, 20 August 1878, Page 2
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192NEW CALEDONIA. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2968, 20 August 1878, Page 2
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