New Caledonia.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3702, 5 November 1880, Page 3

New Caledonia.

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The Neo-Caledonien, in »n article en the religious war between the Catholic and Protestants natives at Mare Ireland, demands that the result of the investigation made by the French authorities into the matter should be made known to the public. Governor Conrbet is malting- consider* able alterations in the administration of the convict establishments. Six hundred •ells of correction are to be constructed {jt th* Peniteaiiary. He has; suppressed tbvpraw^e which has latterly prevailed Of;..' assigning prisoners as servants to private individuals on account of the abuses which had grown up under it. Fradio, chief of the tribe of Pounamu-

nouns/ (Boulepan) has at last been :? oaptured by the-; native police at Thio. He has been in hiding ever since the native insurrection of 1878. He and his n >tribe were concerned in the'massacre of the Tricotte family. Fradio showed the police the place where he had' been in hiding in the mountain of Aoui, and they captured a party of ten of bis people, the whole of the adults being made prisoners, as being implicated in the outrage during the revolt, ill of the party looked to be well nourished, and did not appear to ; bare suffered any hardship during their Itfng «tay in the mountain. Fradio will, ._. in _ the first instance, be tried before a -^ ."Military Commission. '

' ', At the Vallee dcs Colons a Hber6 broke the bound? of residence assigned him. A , gendcrme endeavored to arrest him, when ;" the offender drew 7 a knife to stab the ' officer. The latter fired the first shot from on revolver in the air, but finding hi»T,own life seriouslj menaced, fired •gaio^lliflg the wimlnal instantly. By the mail steamer the Nickel Com* riany of New Caledonia shipped 24,000 Uiegrammtfs 01 nickel to Fiance.