Another Massacre at Santo, New Hebrides.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4043, 13 December 1881, Page 2

Another Massacre at Santo, New Hebrides.

DEATH OF MR H. A. MAIR. By private letters received by the s.s. Taiaroa, from Fiji, we learn with great regret of the murder of Mr H. A. Mair, | late Government Agent, schooner Isabella (engaged in the labour trade), and brother of Major W. G. Mair, Civil Commissioner, and of Captain Mair, of Auckland. From the narrative we gather that the sad affair occurred at the Island of Santo, New Hebrides, on the 12th ult. Mr Mair, the mate, and four Fijians, of the Isabella, left the vessel that morning for the purpose of recruiting labour, and the boat was in sight in shore till half past eleven o'clock, when it went behind some rocks. Here, as was subsequently ascertained from the survivors, two men were recruited,'and 4 third was being arranged for when - the attack was made. Mr Mair was struck with a tomahawk on the right shoulder but immediately shot the man who wounded him. He was then struck with a tomahawk on the other should r, and knocked over* board out of the boat, surrounded and killed. The mate and two other Fijians were also killed; the other two Fijians were wounded, but they succeeded in escaping, and swam off to a vessel at anchor four miles off.