APPALLING MASSACRE AT THE LINE ISLANDS.

Auckland Star, Volume XII, Issue 3384, 1 June 1881, Page 2

APPALLING MASSACRE AT THE LINE ISLANDS.

A Thousand Natives Slaughtered by a Native Missionary,

Intelligence of a most horrible massacre perpetrated at Tapitawa, one of the Line Islands, was brought to Fiji 0a „, April, says tbe "Fiji Times," „_en T schooner Elizabeth returned f, nm trading ciuise :-" Some years arm It a ol the London Mi__ o _ _ 0 _ .5° a branc<> blished in tbe island fromTflm-fi J as estacharge of a Sandwich !_»„__ o,o]u ' UDder who"succeeded in mZmZ*™? Kabucommunity. Upo_ tffi™K Dg -the cDii™ tianity he induced the. >t C- Dg Christheir weapons i uto __, "L'° 8"f "P all thing went smoothly fn- I ,'•■ and everyhowever, the pZ/e™M* Latt<-#, \ part of the island became LmL 6? aU>ern constant requisitions ra a ,!, sEea at'he copra; and, considering & thc<? *<-<• tianity too dear at •'*_„ hristhey apostatized. Kabu th™ price> a crusade against them _J teaeli. e4 his follower,, led them on i_-» beating two clubs to.cthV °_ shouting "Kill Kill' Tl- and which followed is almost teohorrS, belief not less than 1000 men, worn ° and ch.ldren liaviag been. indiscriS ately.jn_ss.c_d. The most atrocku enoimitieswere practised on their vieS by the victorious-party, and after the general daughter the^ wounded wre collected together, piled one on top of another and the roof of an old house placeover them, which the miscreant Kabu fired with his own.hand. When the Elizabeth was at the island the beach was still strewn with the decomposing bodies of men, women, and children, butthearch fiend of the transaction had been taken to Honolulu in tho Hawaiian vessel Stormbird to answer for his almost incredible crime,