Blackbirding in the Pacific.
(Received Nov. 27, 0.40 a.ra.) Brisbane, November 2G, Nash, a seaman on tho labour schooner William Manson (who with tho chief officer of tho vessel and two others of a crew had been arrested on a charge of kidnapping natives in the Pacific Islands) has turned the Queen's evidence Ho deposed that a chief brought throe blacks on board tho vessel,but admitted that no restraint was used, and there was nothing to prevent thorn, escaping over tho sido into a canoe. \
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4887, 27 November 1894, Page 3
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85Blackbirding in the Pacific. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4887, 27 November 1894, Page 3
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