The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-15
AUSTRALIA.
on the solomon Group
Seaman Murdered-Nuggets OF Gold.
The most recent arrival from this faro land

CunnihaIism ON the Solomon Group
Seaman Murdered-Nuggets OF Gold.
The most recent arrival from this far-on land
brings us some important and Interesting
advtces. -
Melbourne (Oct. 3D correspondence says:-
"Some very big nuggets have been turned up
during the past month. AT Gymple, In Queens
land, a 700 ounce nugget was taken out of the
Golden. Bar claim, 100 ounces of dust being also
obtained in the course of couple of days. AT
Berlin. near lngewood, in this colony, one
man obtained in a couple OF days $50 ounces.
comprising one nugget of 2S6 ounces, and
number Of smal er ones. At the same field two
nuggets, weighing respectively 226 ounces ana
l75 ounces have also been discovered"
PUNIsHING THE CANNIBALs
Advices from Sydney, Nov q state that the
British steamer Blanche has returned from
was despatched from this port on the 18Th
August last to punish the natives OF Rondova
Bay for the murder and eating OF the master
and crew of the Sydney barque Marian Renuy.
She arrived at the solomon Group on the 9th
Septem ber, and on the llth anchored in Ron
dova Bay. The natives mustered in canoes in
strong force, but abandoned the place before the
enough to fire at them. The village at the head
of the bay was then shelled from the ship, aud
soon destroyed.
searching among the ruins found q hut con-
tanning twenty-six human skulls, five of which
were evidently those of white men. guam
tity of ship stores such as paints, oils, etc. was
also discovered. A number OF very line canoes
were necessarily left by the natives on the
beach, and these were also destroyed. The
Blanche then returned TO Sydney, calling at
New Caledonia. 1t is hoped that the lesson she
has administered tC the natives at ROndOva
bay will produce q salutary effect among the
other inhabitants of the Solomon group, who
are 9p no means SO friendly as might be de-
sired.
THE LOSS OF THE SCHOONER HARMON.
Reliable information has been received as to
the fate OF the Australian schooner Harmon,
which left the port of Levuka, Feejee Islands.
for the Line Islands, about ten months since,
with the purpose of getting cargo of native
Hudson's Island, one of the Elise group. aud
while there the captain aud crew, numbering
in ali eight men, were murdered and eaten by
the natives Measures will soon be taken for
avenging this horrible crime.
Captain DAILY, formerly commander Of the
Spec q small vessel engaged&n the South Sea
Island trade, has been brought on to Feejee by
the Nymph, the same vessel which brought on
the news of the murder of the crew of the Har'
mon. The captain got separated from his snip,
and gives the following interesting account of
while cruising among the islands collecting
cargo I,d Of coeoan9t OIL & we pHbt b, IN IL towards S
manned manned by i've Sandwich men in order to land
o raft of oil casks at our oil depot on the island.
The mate was left In charge of the vessel; the
sea was rough, and the ship being long way
from shore, darkness overlook us before
making land, and after the most strenuous
TO cut the casks adrifG and try to regain the
ship. AS, however, it was by this time quite
and got q long way to leeward of both
vessel and island, end after beating about
all nl8nL we 1Ounu, Wnen Jne uayllgnG
came, that our boat was fairly out at sea, with
neither ship nor land in sight Underthes
circumstances | laid course for the nearest
island to leeward of us (St. Augustine's) and
reached there in five days, almost starved to
death, having had nothing to eat since parting
from the ship. On making land we found a
large number of natives on the beach, who
would not follow us TO go ashore until they held
q council of war as to what was to be done with
us. But we were ultimately handed over to an
old chief who had first sighted our boat, and
who had generously declared to his country.
that n LleV killed thew ad
TO do, they must first kill him This old
chief behaved nobly, and provided for us during
the whole time of our nine months' stay on st.
Augustine's Unfortunately fell sick of the
measles, and the disease spread like wildtire
among the natives no less than 800 of them
dying of ii. Strange tosay the natives brought
each corpse and laid IL down in front OF me
before making away with 1t, and from that time
until l left the island the natives feared me as
spirit who had the power of intlictlng disease
and death upon them. 1t was a day of rejoicing
among the people when Captain Fuller of the
schooneT,N Nymph, having heard at neighbOriug
island OF q white man being at st. Augustine's
came and took me off with my boats crew of
Sandwich Islanders"