AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.
[FRO3I OUli. OWN COIUIBSPON'DISNT.] "^S= kadblTide. -^zmt ■ ■ >yyoi Monday. §||The^Sorata's back is broken,** and the vessel-has been abandoned. """^"Brisbane. Monday. The: steamer, Ripple arrived from the Solomon Islands yesterday morning, with only the captain, mate, and engineer, the steward, three Kanakas, passenger named "William Pense, and five wounded Kanakas, one of whom is not expected to recover. The captain reports that while trading at one of the Islands, with the natives who had come on board, when the latter suddenly attacked them. The crew repelled the assault with difficulty, but killed fifty of the natives.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1127, 21 September 1880, Page 2
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98AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1127, 21 September 1880, Page 2
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