SUPPOSED WRECK OF THE UNDINE. MURDER OF A BOAT'S CREW. [PER PRESS AGENCY.J
Auckland, 17th May. Lavuka (Fiji) papers of late date just received here contain ttie following items : — The schooner Undine is missing. She is supposed to have been wrecked between Aho and Levuka. Two vessels have been sent in search. The schooner Stanley has returned from a labor cruise. She reports losing one of her bjats with four men during the gale. The captain says possibly the boat may have reached the shore. The captain also reports that a Fijian Government agent, with the mate and a boat's crew of the Mystery, have been murdered at the island of Aoba. Mr. Smith, another Government ae;ent, was also fired at by the natives of Eromanga, but escaped. H.M.S. Cormorant has sailed to Torres Straits to receive Sir Arthur Gordon from the mail steamer, when he will visit New Guinea, New Britain, and other islands, returning to Fiji in July.
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Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 513, 19 May 1879, Page 2
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