TRADERS MURDERED.
} TROUBLE AT THE SOLOMON ISLANDS. BY TELEGRAPH— r&ESS ASSOCIATION —OOPIfIIOUt. (Rcc. June 19, 11.40 p.m.) Sydney, Juno 19. has been received by the Island steamer that a British trader named Oliver Burns has been murdored by natives at tho Solomon Islands. Burns' station was looted and burned, and a trading schooner destroyed. There is much unrest in tho otjier islands of the group, and the natives are threatening to wipe out tho whites.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 229, 20 June 1908, Page 5
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75TRADERS MURDERED. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 229, 20 June 1908, Page 5
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