AN ISLAND CRIME.
MURDER AND CANNIBALISM. Press Association.—Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Sydney, April 7. News from the Solomon Islands states that Howard, manager of Stevens' party, of Dunedin, has been murdered at the Fiji island. While two boats containing recruits were proceeding to the French schooner lying off the Fiji island, the recruits capsized the boats in the surf and swam ashore. They purposely murdered the beats' crews as they landed, and it is believed that the bodies of the unfortunate men were afterwards cooked and eaten.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8535, 8 April 1891, Page 5
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