BRITISH TRADER MURDERED.
UNREST AMONG NATIVES
WHITES IN SOLOMON ISLANDS THREATENED.
Received June 19, 11.40 p.m. SYDNEY, June 19. News received by the Island steamer states that a British trader named Oliver Burns, has been murdered by natives at the Solomon Islands. Burns station was looted and burned and his trading schooner destroyed. There is much unrest in other islands in the group, the natives threatening to wipe out the white*.
Solomon Islands are in the Western Pacific. The southern members form a British protectorate and the northern a German one. The people (176,000 Papuans or Melanesians) are divided into a great number of tribes, who are constantly at war with one another. Cruel and savage cannibals, they wear little or no clothing, and tattoo their bodies.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9120, 20 June 1908, Page 5
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127BRITISH TRADER MURDERED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9120, 20 June 1908, Page 5
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