HOSTILITIES AT THE NEW HEBRIDES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 235, 2 October 1894, Page 2

HOSTILITIES AT THE NEW HEBRIDES.

NE\v.s:from the New Hebrides received W Sydney abates that further native'hostmtieß have taken placeat Tanna, andtw> lives of traders and missionaries are w danger. On the evening of tho 2nd,fll»:'- , Mr T. C. Stevens, a trader, had a narro*. escape. H« woke ab about 11, o'clock W" i the noise of burning, and saw a &> iX9 caused by the firing of his copra house-; At that moment a couple of'Shota/wert fired through the house, jusb BUBsine!* 8 bed on which he lay. Seizing his rifle,!*:. ran bo the door, bnb hearing voices outsit made for the, window, and as he -jump, into the glare a volley was fired at in,1 * He, then lay down, and. after atimejwjf^ the a.id of, his Winchester, succeeded" .■ driving bhe murderous peopleaway.' Hop"1'" .vocation appears to have been given for' 11 attack,'Mr Stevens having always '586 D mosb friendly terms wibh^he nabivoß.*!'*;'. thinks the attack was niado upon MfM the bosh, natives,; who are ab waCfjl^ffiS " salt water " or coasb men, to. deprW-'J' latter of their trader. The arriyJW| British worship was being anxionßlMßßs£|' for by the white people at Tanna. > ,' t

Rev. E. Walker, of the,New,^Z|gfe Alliance, has arranged to start early.,"'}*, week upon a.lecturing tour of the WaJ llj* and, Thames districts, •rebntninff to.A**', land aboub Saturday or Monday, OctJ^ 20th or 22nd; for a few days befordMip again for Gisborne and Havrka'a Boyi<