NEW CALEDONIA.
THE NATIVE INSURRECTION. The Gunga brought to Sydney intelligence from New Caledonia to 25th October, eight days later than the news by the Sea Nymph. Further details of the massacre of the Lambert family prove that over confidence in the natives and in the proximity of the soldiers, distant but one mile and a-half, led to the lamentable result. So sure did M. Lambert feel of the friendship of the natives, that he had even disarmed his people. His body was found in the verandah of his house seated at a small table, his head reclining upon his left arm, which rested upon the table. His wife was, like himself, killed by an axe. Both seem to have met with a sudden death, and no time for a struggle seems to have been given. The man-of-war Loire, with 220 soldiers and 3GO convicts, arrived on the morning of the 25th. A detachment of 100 men is to be despatched at once to the revolted district. The frigate Tage sailed on the morning of the 28th for France, with 100 soldiers. At the latest advices all was quiet on the east coast, npon which it is said there is not a single rebel. The rebels are surrounded on all sides, and ought soon to be crushed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XV, Issue 5302, 13 November 1878, Page 3
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