Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-11-10

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until the safer expedient of laying train
OF printing powder W 3 thought Of This,
in its turn, was superseded by q piece of
quick match placed in the vent; and 1t was
soon discovered that the action of the
match was much incr assd 10y placing Il in
a small tnbe of paper, This led TO the in
vention OF the "tube by which all guns
are Cred at the presc : day
HE Fl Cannibai. Var and Mag-
atiag- Grrat Massacre.
Che FIJI Times of } 23 thus descrllys
ia oui break of " 70, tue northwest coast,
which sas attended / terrible massacre.
Partc aiars of the fat IT Mr. Norman,
who ,s murdered eaten by his crew,
are also given:
We have Just heard 'riShtfu news from
Ba, on the north YES, coast OF Wit Lew.
For some time past me Ba people have
been ut war with tbe mouL taineers, and u
few have been killed N both sides but
letter Just ia from tMv native minister in
forms rs of fearful nassa ere. Tho noun
taineers trom Navosa came down to Nalo-
tn, an inland district, hitherto snhiect to
Ba. and the advanced fortress OF Bri ni.mua
of the Ba people. They put a war fence,
and then Wawabalavu, the Navosa chief,
CAilSh tut UliI lbu NHlOlu ptOptFs
am Wawabalavu 1t was / who
ate Mr.. Baker, and the Bau men.
Do You trust to the Lasakau
You offer peace offering, or make submis-
sion that you may live" The Nalotu peo-
pie we're filled with fear, and presented
peace offerings. The mountainoers then
entered their towns and remained fora few
days in apparent trendlinoss, but their
number was being continually increased
b7 new arrivals from the hills They then
turned round suddenly upon the Nalotu
people and slaughtered $40 OF them.
That so many have been killed is beyond
doubt. Silas, the native minister, who
lives ut Ba, writes: The Navnnivasi
town, III killed; Drantani, Ia; Koro'-
kewa. So; Massage, 27-altogether $40.
That this number were dubbed
is clear, but there are many still
missing, who are hiding IN the
jungle, or have been taken prisoners Of
war to Navosa Perhaps they are killed,
but their bodies have not yet been found.
Only 104 have escaped alive to Ba." The
heathens say that the next town they will
attack will be Sagunu, the chief town Of
the Ba district. 1t is thought that Nabe-
ka, noted cannibal Ba chief, who is en-
vious of Tui Ba, is one with Wewabalavu
in this treachery. The same tribe, and
from the same town. murdered the unfor-
tunate missionary, Mr.. Baker, in 1867. in
his attempt TO pass through their country
on an exploring tour. The Ba coast has
no white settlers upon it, but attention
was being drawn 10 the Ba River, and land
YVES being bought upon it for cotton-grow-
ing when the writer was in Fiji three
months ago.
Capt Field of the Mary Ann Christina
informs us that on board the Colleen
Bawn, at Tanna, he met with Jimmie
Lasalasu, who has jong since been reck-
oned with the dead, Our readers will re-
member that boat which left Levuka for
Nasavusayu about twelve months ago,
with seventeen New Hebrides laborers,
their employer, Mr.. Norman, late of Sand
hurst, near Melbourne, and the aforesaid
Jimmie, never reached its destinatio
The boat was thought to have been
wrecked, and al on board lost Jimmie
Lasulasu informed Capt. Field that while
on their way to Nasavusava the natives
took possession of the boat, compelling
them to steer first one way and then an
other, and threatened to kill them ii they
did not land them on their own island.
VIZ tIt ncNcntco nun uhy WHY ululueIti
Mr.. Norman, splitting his head open with
a tomahawk. They cooked and ate the
body, thrusting portions of his cooked
companion into the face OF Jimmie.
The journey was long, and with no food
or water on board the hardships may DO
imagined. The natives died one after the
other, I'LL by lucky chance the boat was
cast upon the shore rect OF an island only
twenty miles from that TO which they be-
longed. Jimmie has been living on that
island for the last twelve months, and was
perfectly nude when rescued by the Colleen
Bawn week or two since. Mr.. Norman
was highly respectable settler, who, be-
sides his plantation in Fill had q grocery
business IN Sandhurst ia charge OF which
he LETT his wife, now ms widow, when he
came down here. He pEocuseq Tho labor
ers from the William and Jp}it- ,yhsybafs
been engaged and brought .INIh x19Gspl
McIIiyer, and some who cha9s3 yqk3sn
are sad 20 be now on Scotts sflanl1iBvfts