HEAD-HUNTING RAIDS AT THE SOLOMONS.
DISAPPEARANCE OF TWO TRADERS. < Our Own Vorretvondent.) | PER S.S. HAUROTO AT THE BLOTF.] Stdnet, 20th June Yet another massacre has been committed at the Solomon Islands, the victims being Messrs. D. Kerr and S. Smith, traders from Sydney. These men, on 12th April, left Bnbiana in a cutter on a trip to ttie adjoining islands, and have not since been seen. The wreckage of their cutter has, however, been found in Blanche Channel, and the nativeß on the neighbouring shores state that during a raid of head-hnnters from Rendova Island the two traders were met with and despatched, and the cutter was afterwards looted. - Great activity is now being displayed among the Solomon Islanders in their favourite pastime of head hunting, and when the steamer Kelloe left the group a body of 200 men from Rnbiana was known to be engaged in a raid. Admiral Bridge is to bo asked to take stern measures to stop this continual butchery.
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Evening Post, Volume XLIX, Issue 150, 27 June 1895, Page 3
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