ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 5131, 29 July 1878, Page 7

ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.

[By TKLHf-ut.-vm.]

Auckland, July 2:.rd.

j Further reports from New Caledonia, dated Noumea, .June L':)th, state that the native revolts took place in the districts of Ourail and j LVnilarpari, distant <i 0 and l .io miles from here, on the 2'i'Ai ifi.st. The first intimation of the ini'.bur-ft which reached Xoumea, was a report that five u-iues on guard at Fon, a river ■ nt-arOurai'i, haJ been attacked and murdered ; | next that a murderous assault had been made i up.in tho Colons, fanners, and every white ! iv.-i.ientiu the neighbourhood of Unrail. The I Government immeuiatelytelegraphed for troops ' t-> be despatched to the scene of the conflict. ! Tim following day news was received that the I environs of Oiir.-.i'l were in ii-imes, that twenty- ! one whites were known to be massacred, a:id ! that the revolt was spreading towards Boular- : pan", :'.O miles nearer Noumea. On the 27th, ; intelligence came of the massacre of the Colons j anil <'ther residents in Boularpari and the sur- ; rounding dir-tricts. Fugitives began to arrive :in town, and the excitement was intense, ; verging during the day on panic. Mounted , volunteers, armed by the Government, arrived ;to find the pla-je in ashes, corpses lying in \ every direction cut and hacked horribly, i Family after family was found murdered in i haps, no mercy having been shown. Men, i women, and children, treacherously surpiised, i were alike victims.

■ The Canala natives are taking: up arms j j against the revolted tribe, headed by their great I i chiefs, Gelemah ard Kaka. Military i:e:i- ---; uarmes and a Urge number of armed civilians j j are now in pursuit, and 150 friendly natives ; > aidin;.', to surround the rebels. ZCews from | Bciulnrpari state that natives made an attack on : a baud of convicts seeing them guarded by only ! four sailors. The convicts were, however, all i brought in except one who was killed, and one j surveillant was wounded. The sailors killed j eight natives. Information has been received i

of the utfcer destruction of the large village of IsTarai by our men. Eugene, a friendly chief of the J?aitai district, captured six revolted natives and delivered them to the military, by whom they were executed. On July sth, it was reported that there was no extension of the revolt. The rebels are being gradually hemmed in on all sides. A large military camp is to be formed at Soularpari. Noumea is now perfectly calm. On July 7th. the latest news was that the day before eightyfour houses belonging to rebel natives had been burnt near Boularpari. Some captives were taken and executed. The names of nearly one hundred victims to t'ae savages are given.