recent Murder at Solomon Island.

Auckland Star, Volume IX, Issue 2604, 12 August 1878, Page 2

recent Murder at Solomon Island.

IT WAS NOT MR WRIGHT.'■.,_-., : 1 AAA ' !The arrival of the, trading schooner. Prig.'* 1 jcess Louise, Captain Oraig. places us in $ of some additional particulars iregarding the murder or a white 'inane'iT jthe Island of Ugi. °ne of the Solomon igroup. From what Captain Craig could ' jlearn from the natives of San ChristovaT; it 'appears that the murdered man, whose Iname was Tov.n_.end, yyaa placed .onjjgi, [together with a lad; by Captain -Jwartz, of. jthe Sydney schooner Zephyr^ a Town-jend !employed a native servant,' and according jto report compelled the native to cany a [ iburden of .vood or water greaterithan his ft strength could bear; the native fell; injured R jhis spine, and death was the\re_ii-lti';iThe , B .tribe, believing Townsend' had been* the cause of the native's death,'resolved, in retaliation, to massacre the trader and jus**- \f|f Imate. A sudden attack was made by a'' jvolley of arrows and spears... Townsend- ;|f Svas killed, the lad being pierced-by4;_6__ spears, and the property, in the shape'.f | trade, was confiscated, by the king ana:h_-F;.aa|||j jwarriors. The news of the affair spread to San Chris-oval, from whence the Beagle hastened to the scene of the tragedy, and ; took the wounded lad from the place, living, but mortally wounded, —-a' Sydney News." „. ;F:;