The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-04
.RAIDING VILLAGES
Of NEW GUINEA
Bushmen Massacre the
Inhabitants.
VOLCANO L0PEIRA AWAKENS
FIVE TOWNS AT IT'S BASE
DESTROYED.
Pitcairn. Island Murderer Found
Guilty of Double Crime
and Condemned to
Death.
VOLCANO LoPEIRA AWAKENs
FIVE TOWNS AT IT'S BASE
DESTROYED.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

4 SpeClAl OlSp6tCn " AA1C OAAAs
/ VANCOUVER, Nov. 3.-The Royal
Mail steamer Aorangi arrived this
evening from Sydney, Wellington, Suva
and Honolulu.
. Another massacre has occurred in
New Guinea. Reports from Samarai
say bushmen living on the slopes of
Mount Sucking have raided villages
/ near .Masfna, Collingwood Bay, and
killed a government chief and fifteen
other men. They threatened the An
glican mission at Sinapa-
=. Another volcanic eruption has oc-
Cured in the New Hebrides, more
alarming than its predecessor The
volcano Lopeira, after remaining
quiescent for twenty years, broke out
and the burning lava thrown up could
be. seen twelve miles away. Five vii
lagos were huddled at the base of the
volcano. and the houses were buried
deep in .scoria at the first outbreak.
The sea for miles around boiled, and
lets of water leaped high into the air.
fortunately none of the Inhabitants of
the. five destroyed villages were buried
under the melted lava. A few days
after the outbreak the natives Went up
to the top of the still smoking volcano
carrying punches of cocoanuts, Whlch
they offered up as sacr1nce 10 make
the: fire dead.
News from Pitcairn Island states
| that a man named Christian. who was
accused of the murder of his paramour
and child by throwing them over CHI,
has been found guilty and condemned
/ TO death. Christian desired to marry,
and the woman and child stood IN the
way.
Queensland now consists of Isl officers
and 2448 men. The commandant rec
ommends that it be increased.
a gold rush has occurred at KanoWa,
West Australia A peck of gold was
seen under a private house near the
town, and Immediately the district
around, including residence areas,
town blocks and a railway line, was
taken UP.
The Victorian Legislative Council
threw out by a majority of - to 10 the
Wonan's suffrage bill sent up by the
Assembly.
In Australia most of the railways are
owned by the Government, and at a
conference recently held 1t was deter
mined to put down ''scalpers The
conference decided to alter the form OF
return tickets and to allow refund
to persons who do not use the return
half $1,000. ,-..~vr~r.-~
a very aIsgraceIuI scene occurred In
the Queensland Assembly on october
5. Several members were suspended.
Messrs Mcdonald and Hoolan violently
resisted attempts to remove them from
the chamber. Hoolan styled the
Speaker of the Assembly "a contempt
ible little niger driver.
A proclamation has been issued bring
ing Santa Cruz and other islands I'M
der the British protectorate.
NAPOLEON Jean Lisson was found
guilty at Sydney of the murder of Mrs.
Edith Gorrick. The jury recommended
him to mercy, but Lisson expressed a
desire to be hanged. as soon as possible.
Justice Owen was greatly affected in
pronouncing the death sentence, but he
/ was urged by the prisoner mot to cry. "
Sydney papers dated October report
that heavy dust storms have ragged
through the country, doing serious
damage to crops and in some cases to
buildings. The drought continues and
crops are whitening. Some "halves"
/ farmers in Riverina have abandoned
| their crops and returned to Victoria.
! Unless rain soon falls many wheat
| crops will not be worth cutting, even
/ for hay.
| There is distress also in the Pacific
| islands. On her recent trip from Rara-
! tonga in the Cook group, to Auckland
| her .Majestys ship Tauranga called al
! Sunday Island and found all the live
| stock on. the island dead and people
living on what they could grow.
+ It is announced from Sydney that
/ the Minister for Lands intends to re-
I serve q piece of land at Kurnell, where
/ Captain Cook first landed, and have il
proclaimed public reserve. The Phil
osophical Society of Australia has af-
| fixed brazen table with a commence
rat1ve inscription against the rock or
which Captain Cook and Sir Joseph
Banks first landed.
Coolgardie, has been removed from Of
fee on account of q speech in which
he said the country was rotten anC
condemned the Premier for not protect
ing public officers.