AVENGING A SOUTH SEA MURDER.

Press, Volume XXXI, Issue 4290, 30 April 1879, Page 2

AVENGING A SOUTH SEA MURDER.

I_P_*ess Special Wire."} m AUOKLArIO, April 20, If The " Sydney Morning Herald's" _Tott__ If correspondent writes ou April 4th :-rH._l m Cosmorant, Captain Bruce, anchored __(t ft few hours after the departure of ths a_. M She comes from a cruise of somo aoitiiil; amongst the South Sea Islands, and rqsrtjjl the discover/ of no less than torty or &W shoals and rears not laid down upon iSi charts. These were caused no doubt dnwJL tbe volcanic disturbances, which some HMraSfjy" since so altered the soundings at T-nnaHaSp One important mission of the Cosaiora*- »§ff to enquire into tho circunutancos of-K** murder of Mr Ingham at Brooker L_- y?' Captain Bruce asserts that the goodrft. £}■ which would have followed the visit of J _j| Cormorant were much lessoned by ths feci. j& the Natives being forewarned by trades* |t what they had to expect. On aro_S §| at the place they ounningly pretends. !- most lamb-like innocence, comiDg o2 cfe canoes to trade, bringing island and conducting themselves in such » wsjth'i&| Captain Bruce refused tho aid hef-urn-pf pected from the missionaries, and te.ife impossible to treat suoh confidence in mjU |v? a friendly manner while poroeveri_gi_KSKii' 0 ing for proof of their culpability. Tho «■ wl mains of poor Mr Ingham's bout and tfa W, plunder were discovered by the March psrtj. m Then the "innocent" natives msdeto-g| eelves scarce, as before thoy h_d been CM'lp fiding. When the murderers HA for pM- M taction to the other side of tbs cbe!t«fe&l| hills, distant a mile or tiro (torn the «%B they found themselves pursued by rotkt'AWß which followed thorn "oret tbe bills and mm away," and burst amongrt them sows thirty m or forty seconds after the wste-ew on ths gfc hill-tops had seen tbe shot fi«4 Iwm tt' |; vessel. They must have thouabt tkt W M very "devil," their only go-,wu pursuit ||, them to death, more especially w-eMßtf p the ship had left, they found their TJ!»»r devastated, though not a man had put v t ; i toot on shore. , fek A new and very great danger is beie_& Ife tered by traders among the South sf gj lalands. One of the articles m» ! m demand by the islanders is af&® t M Sooner or later there is little doubt but*® ffi of these cunning civilised fellow, *!»*»• || spent years amongst whites'in Q New Caledonia, or Wiji, and whe«pe«g* M English, and are perfectly acquainted W g the use of many" articles of civuuw J* M including the death dealing, • blow eomo vessel to piecqi. with thistrM? I,; This dynamito question reminded Bruce of an expedition up the *'&f7'fc-, Africa, the shores of which riT«[iiii»| lined with cannon of various calibre- aJ.». m the native 3by the very merchant* "'fl interest tho expedition was sent to m