WARLIKE NATIVES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11220, 11 December 1911, Page 5

WARLIKE NATIVES.

REALISING THEIR POWER.

TRIBES INCITED BY KANAKAS.

r MISSIONARIES IN DANGER. !

Press Association— Electrio Telegraph—Copyright.

Received Monday, at 9.50 a..m. SYDNEY, Monday

By the island steamer Mindini ■ arrived five native prisoners en route for Fiji to stand their trial for attacking Mr Austin's station on Solomon Islands. Mr Austin shot two of the attackers dead. Advices indicate that the lot of white men on Solomon Islands is precarious. A prico is sot on their heads by the chiefs of the native cannibal tribes. The trouble, which.recently resulted in the murder of Jones, the mate of the schooner Ruby, and other outrages, is attributed to the influence of Kanakas returned from Australia, who incited the natives to a realisation of their power. The natives at the mission stations were also taught that it was un-Christ-ian to nght, and the stations were therefore practically unprotected. The missionaries are working in danger of their lives. The warship Torch landed a party to suppress the unruly hill men, and met with a stout resistance, an encounter resulting in a number of natives being killed.