THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1880.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3724, 1 December 1880, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1880.

By a corrected calogram we learn that it was Che commander and five men of H.M.S. Sandfly, who were massacred at the Solomon Group. It is to be hoped that the British Government will take steps to punish the offending parties, or we shall expect.to see such outrages of a much more frequent occurrence. The numerous outrages which have been perpetrated by the Aborigines living in the Pacific Ocean on Europeans, calls for immediate retribution on their heads, and stringent measures will have to be taken to protect the white man. Those individuals at home, who, like Mrs Jellaby, prepare flannels and other etcetrasfor the natives of Borioboolagah, should pay, a visit to the Solomon Islands, and were their stay even only a short one, we fancy their high opinion of the " noble savage " would receive a rude shock. We suppose when an Admiral, a Commissioner, or some other high dignitary of the British Government is tomahawked by natives of the Pacific, the Colonial Office will waken, to the knowledge that the noble savage, so far from being the much' to-be-admired descendant of Ham, is nearly related (in principle at least) to that abominable fratricide Cain. Justice may be slow, but she is sure, and comes heavy handed, and some day there will be a terrible reckoning with the savages living at Fiji, and other dependencies of the British Crown.