SOLOMON ISLANDS MURDER.
TREACHEROUS NATIVES
Received June 29, 10.35 a.m. SYDNEY, June 29,
Details of the murder of Oliver Burns in the Solomon Islands show that a native who had been arrested (or the murder of another native committed suicide. His friends thereupon sought the life of a white man. They boarded Bump's boat, and while engaged in an apparently friendly chat killed him with an axe, then drove the native crew overboard, wounding one, and scuttled the boat.
THREATS OF RISING
REPORTS DISCREDITED,
MELBOURNE, June 23.
The Federal Government has been advised that recent outrages in the Solomons had nothing to no with returned Islanders, and the reported threat" of a rising are discredited, such risings being impossible owing to continuous tribal hostilities.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9129, 30 June 1908, Page 5
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124SOLOMON ISLANDS MURDER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9129, 30 June 1908, Page 5
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