A MASSACRE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 652, 1 November 1909, Page 7

A MASSACRE.

—-4—— THE SOLOMON ISLAND TRACEDY. WORK OF AN OUTLAW. TEE TERROR OF THE WHITE TRADERS. (B» I'oleßfaph—Ptesc AMoClnlod-OoDj-right.! ; „ , . i Sydney, Octobor 30. The of Captain Brinskin (whose nativo.wifo and children.were murdered) Is situ,ated on the Island .of .Baggabagga.Vfhe.'tmt.latv chief Sito, with a band of natives as desperate as himself, is responsible for,the massacre, . '• '.. I - The murderers came from the mainland in boats laden with copra, ostensibly' to trade, aid then murdered all on the island except a boy. of swam , to the rftaiulniid and gave the alarm. ; ■ A tiamed Nkliolsoi, with a body of friendly armed natives, crossed'to the island, but tho murderers were gone. . The bodies were tirriblf: mangled, presenting a grucsomo . sight. ~ Mrs.. Brinskin wiU killed in the water, and her. body was wasted away. SJM;ii the terror of the wliite'traders in tie Western Solomons. It is statiid that he is resolved to oiterminate not only all Europeans, but native women who ally thomeelves with whites. He has threatened Mr. : Nicholson, ths missionary, many times.

THE NEW GUINEA MURDER, A DESPERATE FIGHT. • „ _ , ' Sydney, Octdbct 30. H»r Dammkthlcr and his campnnW Oldorp, who wfcrt murdered by natives at New Guinea, penetrated iJo hundred. miles. Up thb Markham River. Running short of fctoris, they dispatchod native oarriers. for fresh supplies, and they were attacked while i those voro absent. Oldofj) jmt up a desp'orato figiit after his campaiiion v&i killed, afld was wounded. After sflffaring fcreat hardships, with the assistance ,of a raft he .managed to. make his way down the river to the eottlemont of Flnchaven.