NATIVE ATTACKS IN THE SOUTH SEAS.

Evening Post, Volume XV, Issue 284, 4 December 1877, Page 2

NATIVE ATTACKS IN THE SOUTH SEAS.

Sydxby, 20th November. News by the gunboat Sandflj*, from the South Sea Islands, gives particulars of the attack by natives of St. Christoval on the crew of the Marion Kenny, a Fiji labor vessel. The depositions of tho Government agent of the schooner on board the Sandfly are to the effect that the mate landed on the 21st of October with a boat's crew at Maroo Bay, St. Christoval, and procured some cocoanuta • also, that the agent sent some native immigrants ashore on that day and the next to bathe. Hearing screams in the bush oa the afternoon of the 22nd, he ran in the direction of the sounds, and met the mate running to the beach with a spear through his back, pursued by natives. Two recruits were also badly wounded, but the whole party managed to reach the boats. The mate was also riddled with arrows, and was dying in great agony when the Sandfly sailed. The verdict of the inquiry was that the attack was provoked by the immigrants taking cocoanuta without previous payment. A German trader at the Soloman Group had his store plundered by natives, and himself taken prisoner, but he was afterwards released.