ISLAND NEWS,

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8517, 8 April 1895, Page 3

ISLAND NEWS,

The barquontine Chittoor has arrived a Sydney from the Solomon- Inlands, bringing news that there had been a complete absence oi outrages upon traders, and that the natives had ceased from cannibal feasts and head-hunting for aoma time past.

By way of Noumea advices were received at Sydney from the New Hebrides, where some damage has been done by a hurricane, though the particulars to hand are meagre. It is believed the group has escaped the severest part of the storm. A report received at New Caledonia by the steamer Kone states that fighting is pretty general on Tsnns, where nightly faasti are held over the bodies of the killed, and prisoners who have been taken are roasted alive, the demoniacal yells of the cannibal fiends could be heard on board the steamer passing along the coast. The death of a settler named Lecref at Vila Harbour is reported.

The Myrtle has. arrived at Thursday Island from New Guinea. She reports that a series of earthquakes wore ex* perienced at Port Moresby and in other parts of tho island on the 6th and 7th March, The first shock lusted three minutes, and shook the houses very much. It extinguished lamps and fires in many plicea. No damage is reported. The natives are in a great state of consternation over tho chocks, It is Rurmised that some extinct volcanoes inland have opened out.