AUSTRALIAN.
Melboubne, Monday. The Geelong Handicap was won by Wellington.*
Sydney, Monday. Arrived yesterday: The "'-,.; V "company's steamship Ringarooma, frojn Auckland.
H.M.S. Emerald "reports that she had recently visited the scenes of the Sandfly, Zephyr, and Borealis' massacres in the Solomon Group. She shelled the places and burnt out many villages. The natives generally had absconded, but armed boats' crews were repeatedly sent ashore, and one native was killed and another taken prisoner at Brooke's Island. The Emerald brings two witnesses of the massacres.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3774, 1 February 1881, Page 2
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84AUSTRALIAN. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3774, 1 February 1881, Page 2
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