ISLAND SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6569, 6 December 1882, Page 4

ISLAND SHIPPING.

The TaviUNl.—'The labour schooner Mana, from Suva, Fiji, arrived at Sj-dney on the 25th ult. The Maua brings particalar.** with respect to the murder by the natives of Espiritu Santo of the mate and two seamen of the schooner j Taviuni, which was reported by H.M.S. Diamond as having occurred at Rock Bay. 2hc mate of the Taviuni and the two seamen me*their deaths in the same way as many previous mnrtyrs to civilisation and Christianity. ing tho natives on the beacb, they landed in the hope of inducing sotoe of them to become labourers, but had scarcely put their foot upon the shore than they wore assailed by tho natives | with tomahawks, and killed almost immediately. Tho matter is being inquired into at Fiji, but had not beea concluded at latest advices. _ , . . . WUECK or THE Rose. —From advices received yosterday we learn that tho cutter Roso has been wrecked at Apanana, one of the Lime Islauds. The Coroaer, it appears, carried the shipwrecked master, crew and recruits to Suva. Captain Moore, who wjis in charge of the Hose, writea as follows 14 During the night of the 13:h July, which was very and wet, the vessel rail on the t>outh-west point of Aperaana. Next inorniuu landed labour and provisions, and lightened the vessel so as to try to float her off, | but after working at her one week and every I effort having failed, a survey was held, and the wreck sold. The second day after tho wreck ; the George Noble, three-masted schooner, from j Sydney, hove in sight. She also got on in try- ' ing the passage, but was floated again, after hiving been on some hours. The crew of the • Kase was ou the inland for G5 daya, und were j moat hospitably treated by the natives. At the end of this time we weio taken ou board by the I Coronet, recently purchased at Auckland, aud | all hands, including tho recruit.", safely arrived iii Suva, after a long and tedious passage of 20 | days. The Hose was insured in the South British for £500, but this will not nearly cover . losses."