A TRADER MURDERED
■» NATIVES THREATENING. Press Association.—By Telegraph— Copyright, SYDNEY, June 19. . (Received June 19, at 11.40 p.m.) ' News by the Island steamer states that a British trader named Oliver Burns was murdered hy natives in the Solomon Islands. ilr Burns's station was looted and burned, and his trading schooner destroyed. There is much unrest in the other islands in tho group, the natives threatening to wipe out the -whites.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14245, 20 June 1908, Page 9
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70A TRADER MURDERED Otago Daily Times, Issue 14245, 20 June 1908, Page 9
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