ISLAND MASSCRE.
SETTLER AND DAUGHTERS KILLED IN ' . NEW HEBRIDES. (BI TMIOEAPH—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPTBXGHT.) ' (Reo. October 23, 10.55 p.m.) Sydnoy, October 23.' Advices. from • Noumea (capital of New Caledonia) state that a vessel which has arrived here from tho New Hebrides reports a massacre of whites by the natives oti Santo Island (Esperitu Santo, the largest island of the New Hebrides, occupied by "confirmed cannibals''). '';-The viotims are Peter Grieg- and his two daughters, aged sixteen and seventeen years respectively. Grieg was one. of a number of white men who acquired blocks of land in the island. v
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 336, 24 October 1908, Page 5
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96ISLAND MASSCRE. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 336, 24 October 1908, Page 5
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