REVOLT OF NATIVES.
CABLE NEWS.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.
ATTEMPT TO RAID A STORE. A PUNITIVE EXPEDITION. Received November 17, 9.57 a.m SYDNEY, November 17.
Island news to hand shows that natives employed on Lever Brothers' plantations, on the Island of Guadal canar, revolted, and attemptel to raid the company's store.
A punitive expedition which was sent out shot dead two of the revolting natives, and drove two otners over a cliff.
The men who went over the cliff were killed.
Matters, it is said, have now quietened down.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3046, 17 November 1908, Page 5
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91REVOLT OF NATIVES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3046, 17 November 1908, Page 5
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