NEW CALEDONIA.
[FROM OVB, OWH COBBBBPONDBKT.] Ddnkdik, Sept. 12. The latest telegrams from New Caledonia state that it is now supposed that the entire Native population of the district* of Nakite,
Oulaw, and Goumen will join the rebel King Atar.
ColonelWendling, wlip is the; successor toj the late Colonel Gnlley-Passebosc, has been shot,- but the wound is not fatal: Captain Morcean, who was commanding the English volunteer cavalry, was also shot, but not fatally. The total number of white seUlers and gendarmes returned as killed is 146, There are now 1100 troops in the field. The Natives are fighting with great pluck and tact. j
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 3256, 13 September 1878, Page 3
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