THE LATE MASSACRE AT NEW CALEDONIA.
By the arrival of the schooner Industry yesterday from Noumea, we leara that about 25 of the natives who took part in the murder of several settlers of Phoebe, during the month of November last, had been taken prisoners, and were undergoing their trial. One of the principal witnesses, who had turned Queen's evidence, was very sick, and the trial had therefore been postponed fora few days. Abouta dozen of the natives, however, had been, sentenced to death by guillotine, and it was expeeted the remainder would share the same fate.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1298, 13 January 1868, Page 3
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