The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-11-04
TRIBAL WAR In
NEW HEBRIDES
Inland Natives Wipe Out Village
on the Coast.
A MISSION ALSO ATTACKED
EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS CAUSE
ALARM IN AUSTRALIA.
A MISSION ALSO ATTACKED

7 TICTORIA, B. c., Nov. 3.-Advices
Y were received by the steamer
Ntiowera of a tribal war which
has resulted in heavy loss of life on
EsPicitu Santu island, the largest of
the New Hebrides group. The coast
tribes have been attacked by a powerful
inland tribe and several villages were
plundered and burned. The Hill tribe
led by Nandai, a chief whose authority
Is extensive, attacked the mission of
the New Hebrides society. where sew
eral traders had gone for safety. The
assailing blacks were driven toward the
NUS where they made a number OF
raiSs on the coast villages, plundering
ana burning. Letters have been sent
- the French authorities asking that a
waFship be sent to prevent further
maSsacreS :
Four years ago Nandai's father. who
was considered the most powerful chief
IN the island at that time, massacred a
whole village of a neighboring tribe
besides numbering several traders. For
TINS act his own village was bombarded
by sailors from a French warship All
his huts We're destroyed and he himself
was killed in the fighting.
Caused by Sickness.
At Pentecoste (or Whitsuntide) island
the natives are stated to be at war
among themselves. The trouble has
been caused through an excessive
amount of sickness prevalent, which
The natives believe to be caused by
their enemies on the island.
According to mail advices from Sgd
ney severe earthquakes have been caus-
Ing much alarm at Adelaide and neigh
boring places, which were violently
shaken The citizens were thrown into
rQ4
rumolings and then houses and build
sngs were rocked to and fro, chimnexs
brought down and much damage to
property done. The night of the earth
quake was very dark and people were
terrified. Theatres and concert halls
were quickly deserted, people rushing,
panic stricken, to the street. Experts
stated afterwards that a very little
more force would have ruined the city
The most serious damage occurred az
Troubridge, where the lighthouse, built
at a cost of $50, coo, collapsed, burying
the keeper in the ruins.
Burned at Sea.
Advices state that the bark Timaru
Of Sydney has been burned at sea. Shs
left Sydney for Wellington with a gen.
eral cargo and was seen off the New
Zealand coast on fire.
The Miowera brings letters from the
master Of the Scottish Hills, overdue lis
days to Adelaide. She had jettisoned
her deck cargo of 1900 feet of lumber
three days out from Puget sound. The
captain says the fact that his vessels
huh is foul accounts for her long pas
sage.
The bark Cardigan Castle, which has
arrived at Sydney, had a rough pas
sage from Eureka, Cal, she was on her
beam ends for days as q result of noun
famous seas caused by hurricanes. II
seemed during the gales that the vessel
could not survive the storm.
4 Advices from Norfolk island tell of q
fatal accident to a whaler. While q
boats crew was buSily engaged lancing
one leviathan another whale, which no.
body appears to have seen, suddenly
appeared alongside and, striking with
It's fiukes, stove the boat, fatally in
juring Byron Adams. formerly chief
magistrate.