THE SOLOMONS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14340, 9 July 1914, Page 7

THE SOLOMONS.

ALLEGED PERSECUTION CF CHRISTIAN NATIVES. Press Association.—Telegraph.—Copy right Received Julv 9, 1(1 15 a.m. SYDNEY. July 9. The Rov, Go'.di >. cuairman i f the Methodist missions to the Solomon Islands. has reported that Ids \ isit to Ootorngjava disclosed that native converts were being cruelly pc rsccuterl and th»ir property devastated. Food for the relief of the sufferers was interested. Rev Goldie, on landing, was surrounded by hundreds of hostile natives, who threatened him with ry’iftod weapons. The Commissioner for the Solomons has promised an investigation.