TRAGIC HAPPENING IN SOLOMONS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17773, 8 October 1927, Page 17

TRAGIC HAPPENING IN SOLOMONS.

‘ LARGE COMPANY OF PEOPLE DONE TO DEATH. By CiAbio —Pros| Asxttliition —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. . Cabl* As»oci»tion. - - • ' SUVA, October 6. ■, ’’ ‘ Th« High , Commissioner of the * Western P.aciac has. received a. wireless , : stating that a trader who arrived from • Ttildgi'(Solomon Islands),-in the Govf erumeht steamer Auki,. r-fported that the District Commissioner (Mr Boll), -. • .(Li-G&fUt (Lillies),..lS native police and ■the'crew of-'dlie vessel, were murdered '■•'by bush natives at Sinarugo, on the .W’ljsHibrenst coast of-.Afalaita-.lsland. > ThO’date .is hot mentioned. ' -’Tlio 'boatswain of the A tiki and four A’ounded police arc the Solo survivors; . ,Mr Bell and Lillies were, buried at •V .Kw.Ui.' ' ; • Tlie. only"EurdpcatiS" iii'lhe ' vicinity are' Mr; and Mrs ,Andrew. A ...The Seventh Day Adventist Mission i«..haS':ft vessel which can easily proceed A,'''toy Kwai,- where- is tlio South Sea' Evaiigehcal Missin.u,..statio,h. -A,; sj.«»o:lflnxfety is .Jelt! for their" -safety*, w-v This i,*r the worst 1 outrage, reported front 'V j’the- ''Sp'fomghs, : aiid .',fho 1 -' ii rsV‘ (I'bvcrn- • o’ f 'BJ,eht -officials ,killed..-;