A WHITE MAN AMONG SAVAGES.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1443, 1 October 1881, Page 4

A WHITE MAN AMONG SA VAGES.

Interesting particulars were published in fchc Sydney Da Hi/ Telegraph of August 29, in connection, with the ill-fated FrenchItnlian emigration expedition, under the auspices of the Marquis de Rays. Captain M'Laughlin, who explored several islands in the Solomon group, discovered a white man naked among the savages at Bonka Ifaland, and counted seventy war canoes, each containing forty armed savages. After considerable stratagem he got alongside a canoe containing the white man, who was ultimately with some difficulty and danger purchased for three Amerioan hatchets. It was discovered that ho was an Italian named Luigi Booro, who had been for fifteen months a captive with the savages. When he found that he was about to bo liberated his joy knew no bounds, and he became almost frantic. He embraced Gapt. M'Luughlin in an agony of joy, whilst the savages surrounded them shouting, yelling and brandishing their weapons. Luigi Boero believed that he was utterly lost. He imagined that ho had been with his captors three yeais. He, with five unfortunate mates, left Liki harbour to go on a cruise in an open boat. Three days 'iftei wards they struck a reef. The bo.it unf 01 tunately was bioken, and they fell into the hands of the natives. He got sejjerated from hi& companions, whom hu only once afterwards saw, when they had a feaiful Ule of suffering and agODy to relate They were tieated worse than dog*. They were slaves of everyone in the village, and made to do honible woik, always being 1 treated with the greatest ill-usage, and obliged to work in the broiling sun, with their akin, peeling off. When enfeebled and sick they were cruelly beaten and tortured. Thiee months previous to the arrival of the steamer Genii, Luigi heard that all but two had succumbed to the barbarous illtio.itmont, foyer and want of food. Captain M'Lmghlin, after rescuing Luigi, bailed for Bougainville and other islands, where he he.ird of another man in captivity, but w.is unsuccessful in lcscuing him. It is supposed that this untortunate Italian is the only survivor of his six connti ymon who started with him. It is howevei, doubtful, and it may bo that one at loast of the otheis is still the o in captivity among the savages. This talc is causing extiaordinary sensation in .Sydney.

At Glasgow, a milk dealer h.is been fined £2 for allowing a sleeping apartment to be in communication with his milk shop. It is reported from Chicago that a scheme is ou foot to establish a colony of Southern B.iiHiiau Jews iv the Western States. A Russian Jew is making- arrangements to begin with 20 families of agriculturist", who aio only awaiting his orders as to the spot selected. Tin, bath-room of the Marquis Visconti is hardly likely to have arh al. The lava walls aud floors are hung and covered with tapestry, the windows are of stained glass, while the bath u a work of art in silver, the water being spouted by a silver dolphin, one eye supplying the hot and tho other the cold water. The Comte de Oamondo recently paid £1000 fcr a Louis XVI. suite of furniture, in Gobelins, at the Double sale. A largk grain elevator about to go into operation in St Louis, U.S., will employ as elov.itmg power three gas engines which will be located in the cupola of the stiuctme. The experiment is watched with much interest. A boy named John Baston, 13 years of age, at tho Tyne The.itro. was sitting on the outer rail of the gallery, when he over-balanced himself and fell with a crash into tho pit. The poor lad, who was teinbly injtued, lingered until next day, when he died. A ropur.AK cleryman 'recently delivered a lecture to his parishioners assembled upon "tho very interesting subject of ' ' Fools." There was naturallyavery;large audience, and the rush for soats was much augmented by the form in which the admission tickets were printed. The inscription ran thus : " Lecture on Fools. Admit one." At Uenoa theic has just died a dog which duimg the Oiimcau war was present in one of the battles and made three Russian soldiers prisoners. Ho attai d a woudeitul longevity, but of late years was a mere wreck, though cared for in a Government hospital. A Pun's SwiXDLbK — One Edward Hughes (a lead ore smelter) has been ai tested at Wagga on a charge of embezzlement. He was a local preacher, and a man of great apparent piety. Only ou the previous Sunday he had extorted his congregation to observe strict honesty in all their dealings. The Argus adds that he was airested while travelling under the name of Stanhope, on a warrant charging him with larceny as a bailee of about £1200 worth of lead belonging to Messrs Dalgety, Blackwood and Co. 7he accused has boon cariying on business in Hyde- street, Footscray, for some years past, and has from time to time had a number of transactions with Messrs Dalgoty, Blackwood and Co. During the last twelve months tho firm in question forwaided some seventy -seven tons of pig lead, valued at £16 per ton, to Hughes works, to besmelted ata fixed price and stored till called for. Delivery of the lead was lecently demanded, but was not forthcoming, and on inquiries being made it wa« ascertained that it had been sold at different times to Mr M'lhvraith, of the Melbourne Lead Works, who belie ?ed that Hughes was disposing of the metal in the ordinary way of business. The lead was not distinguishable by any particular trade or private marks, and it was not an unusual thing for Hnghes to sell large quantrties of the metal to persons doing business in that line. Messrs Dalgety, Blackwood and Co. will lose heavily by Hughes, who has also a large open account to the extent of about £800, and it is probable that the whole amount of the defalcations will not be much under £2600. The new pure cash system now being initiated by G. and C will certainly prove a benefit to the public. It has been a great success in Sydney and Melbourne and when strictly carried _ out the customer who buys at an establishment where the (joods arc marked low to ensure a rapid sale must bo a great gainer. G. and C. sell their drapery millinery, and clothing at such prices ibr cash as gives the buyer the advantages of a shareholder m a co-opcrati\e society, without the risk of being called upon to bear aportion of the loss should the year's business prove unsatisfactory. Garhck and Cranwell will aim to retain the confidence which the public have hitherto shown them, and are determined to give the pure cash System a fair trial;, whether they gam or lose the first year. Country buyers on remitting c«ish with order will be supplied with goods at co-onerativo prices j lust the same as though they made a. personal selection.' Furnishing goods, such as carpets, floor cloths, bedsteads, bed 'Suip and general' house furniture, the largest portion of whirh is turned out at our own factory, will be marked at tho lowest remunerative prices, and a discount of five per cent, will bo allowed to those who pay at the time of purchase. G. &C. having realised the entire value of their stock during their late cash sale, tho present stock n new and cheaply bought. An inspection is invited. — Garuck A£ro* Cranwkix, City HallFuraishing Arcade Que-eji-') street, *V«cW*iKi • u > c ft*