GREAT LOSS OF LIFE FEARED.
Sydney, March 14. Tho schooner Leslie, just arrived from the Solomon Islands, reports that the master was murdered there by the natives, and that a rumor was current when she left that place, that Captain Laurie, of the schooner Black Hawk, had also been murdered. News from the Mount Brown Diggings states that the water there is exhausted, and the population has shifted six miles. One man perished from exhaustion while proceeding to the field, and it is feared that great loss of life will take place unless rain falls. Melbourne, March 11. The official declaration of Exhibition awards is to be made on the 22nd inst.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XVI, Issue 62, 15 March 1881, Page 2
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