SOLOMON ISLANDERS.
A TRADER MURDERED. THREAT TO "WIPE OUT WHITES." By Telegraph.— Press Association.—Copyright (Received .Tune 19. 11.40 p.m.) * Sydney, June 19. Xr.w.s was received by the Island steamer which arrived to-day that a British trader mimed Oliver Burns had been murdered by natives in the Solomon Islands. Burns' station was looted and burned, and his trading schooner destroyed. There is much unrest in other islands oi /the group, and natives ate threatening to wipe, out the whites.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13781, 20 June 1908, Page 5
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