ISLAND MASSACRE.

North Otago Times, Volume CIII, Issue 13654, 23 August 1916, Page 2

ISLAND MASSACRE.

FURTHER DETAILS OF THE TRAGEDY. (Per Cable—l'rcss Associiilion—Oo]>yrigbt,) SYDNEY, August 22. Details of the massacre of the Bridges family at Tauta, show that the family, of whom the eldest child was twelve, was at supper when attacked. The bodies of Bridges and four children were battered almost .beyond recognition, and the fifth child was carried into the bush. The.indications are'tiiat itlie natives. Jirst- killed Bridges. "The native wife and the other child were absent at the time of the tragedy, which is stated to. be the result of" a lon;j period of weak administration of native maters. | A cable message from Sydney published yesterday reported thai the steamer .Makanibo luul brought news of a horrible massacre at the Xew Hebrides. A trader named R. J. Bridges ami his live children were murdered by bush tribes and the slore looted. The report added that there were indications that one child was eaten.]