AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3306, 26 July 1879, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

- <: •;■•'■: ;^,r! This a»t.:. „ ,;„, 1 HonilDle Affair. U, r , Th« Cruise! of tho Southern!

Joseph Huran, civil engineer, a new arrival, was found dead this morning in a house in St. George's Bay road, having been lying dead several days. The cause of death is reported to be through stabbing whether suicidal or -not it has not yet been ascertained. The police are enquiring. .';f!-jrj;/v; :-,:'. l ::■''''< /■;

The report of the cruise of the MelaneSiani* Missibfl schooner Southern Cross , pres generally... a hopeful account \- v of the mission. Referring to a viait to Leper; TslsAd,!''.:,''^olainon v'''RrdupV tho; report says the part of Island under the more special, direction of. the! missionary gave many hopeful and promising signs of improvement, but sad to say, on the other side of the Island there was work for a man of war aa well as for a man of peace, and the massacre of % labor boat* crew of six persons"—two whites and four blacks—who were cooked, and eaten, brought the Wolverine to the Islands to exact the punishment. The 1 actual instigator, planner, and chief actor in the tragedy was secured and carried prisoner to Fiji, attd a heavy ftti£ levied' on the people in pigs. It is a matter for' much thankfalnesa that the whole affair was settled without reconrie to force of arms or unnecessary bloodshed. The pacific .conduct of the Commodore was] much appreciated by the natives when they saw what power he had for destruction, and are aware that if they perpetrate a like deed of violence they will scarcely get off so lightly. It is a well-known fact that the conduct of some of the whites; in ihese seas is :Worse more lawless towards; the natives than that, of the natives towards each other, and in a number of instances the blacks are driven Jo revenge ; themselves, on the iilrconducted, and bullying whites, but in this case there seems, to have been no provocation.j for so terrible an outrage, the, r( lofft of slaughter and .greed' $m p>J hlumapji flest ',;WngV the " onlj reason assigned for the onslaught. It is awful it is to think that while at one iide, of a not very wide island the finger of God is visibly displayed in the reception into the j»A *ot;JOhn?t'sfflocic: of four young men, who are leading daily most good anil exemplary^ives-f a'*staliding^^ testimony jb Vtn)emßelve]i'b^!j^j»d'lp'.own work^'-rtheiw^r^ of evil is so awfully active on the other, prompting to i such fearful and bloodthirsty deeds as, that, unprovoked, 1 and without ( any', assignable Reason «f BUff* n fftTeß coulid be ruthlessly taken, and the first death blow struck by a tomahawk taken ;friDim?the boat itself; >:<■. ■ ; • ■;n i' ■* i:5100 ■!