The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-10-06


Further, his share Of the stolen tobacco earned him
another year Of toll
Port Adams now three years and a half away
80 he stole a canoe one night. hid on the slets in
Manning Straits passed through the Straits and be-
be captured two thirds of the along by the white
men on Meringe Lagoon. After week he escaped
from them ard took to the bush There bush.
natives on Ysabel. only saltwater men who were all
Christians. The white put up a reward of five
hundred sticks Of tobacco. and every time Mauk
tured down TO the to steal canoe he chased
by the saltwater
Four months of this passed. when. the reward hav-
ing been raised to Thousand sticks lie was caught
and SCEt back to New Georgia and the oadbuiding
sang. Now Thousand sticks are worth fifty dol
lars, and MauAi had to pay the reward himself which
required year ard eight months labor. So Port
Adams now five years away
His inconsistencies YVES greater than ever. and it did
appeal him to settle down and be good. work
out his four years. AID 80 home. The next time he
caught in the very act CT running away. His
case was brought before Mr. IIaveby the island man.
ager Of the Monaghan Soap Company. who adjudged
him an incorrisible The company had plantations on
the Santa Cru: islands, hundreds of miles across the
sea. and there 1t se.t its Solomon Islands incor-
risibles And there Msr.i was sent though he never
arrived The schooner stopped at Santa Anna and i'll
the night Mauki swan ashore. where he stole two
rifles AID case of tobacco from the trader ard got
away in canoe to Cristoval
Malaita to the Forth, fifty sixty miles
away. But when he attempted the passage Ne was
caught by light gale AID driven back Santa Anna,
where the trader cl2ppeds him in irons and held him
against the return Of the schooner from Santa rux
The two rites the trader recovered but the Of
tobacco CHARGED up to Mauki at the rate Of an
other year The sum OF years he now owed the COM
pany six.
On the way back to New Georgia the schooner
dropped anchor in Marau Sound. which lies ut the
southeastern extremity CT Guadacanar. Mauki swan
ashore with handouts his wrists and got away
the bush. The schooner went on. but the Moongleam
trader ashore offered thousand sticks, and to him
Marli was brought by the hashnen with year and
eight months tackled on to his account. Again, and
before the Schooner called IT, he got away this time
in whaleboat accompanied by Of the traders
tobacco. But northwest gale wrecked him upon
Ugi where the Christian natives stole his tobacco and
turned him over to the Moongleana trader who re
q 10 mpl an
other year for him. and the tale was now eight years
.we'll send him to Lord Howe" said Mr. Haveby
"Bunster is there and we'll let them settle 1t between
them. 1t will be case. imagine Of Mauki getting
in either event"
Nobody ever comes to Lord Howe. or Ontons-Java,
it is sometimes called. Thomas Cook Son do
not sell tickets to it and tourists do not dream Of its
existence Not white missionary has landed
on Its shore It's five Thousand natives peace
able as they are primitive Yet they were not always
peaccable The Sailing Directions" speak of them
hostile and treachercus Ert the who compile the
Sailing Directions have rcver heard the change
that was worked IN the hearts of the Inhabitants.
Who not many years ago. cut off big bark and killed
all hands with the exception of the second mate.
This survivor carried the to his brothers. The
captains OF three trading sehooners returned with him
the lagoon and proceeded to preach the white mans
gospel that only white men shall kill white men, and
that the lesser breeds must keep hands off.
The schooners sailed mp and down the lagoon. har
rying and destroying There was no escape from the
narrow sand circle no bush to which to fee The
were shot down sight, and there avoid
ing being sighted. The villages were burned the
smashed the chickens and pigs killed and the
precious cocoanut trees chopped down For a month
this continued. when the schooners sailed away but
souls Of the ISLANDERS and never again We're they rash
enough to harm
Max Bunsters was the one whites man on Lord
gleam Soap Company. And the company billeted him
Lord Howe, because. next to getting rid of him.
the company did not get rid Of him was due to the
difficulty OF finding another man to take his place
He was a strapping big German. with something
able statement of his condition He was bully ard
coward. ard thrice bigger savage than savage
the island. Being a coward his brutality was Of
the cowardly order
When he first went into the company's employ he
to take his place. he beat him up with his
fists and sent him OF wreck in the schooner that
brought him.
to relieve Bunster The Yorkshire man had repu
taton bruiser and preferred fighting to eating.
iamb-for ten days, at the end Of which time the
Yorkshire was FRUSTRATED by an attack OF fever
ting him down and jumping him score 50 of
times. Afraid of what would happen when his victim
where he signnlized himself by beating mp a young
Englishman already crippled by Boer bullet through
both hips
Then it that Mr.. Haveby sent Bunster to Lord
Howe. the fallinson place He celebrated his landing
by hopping half Of gin and by thrashing the
elderly and wheezy mate Of the schooner which had
brought him. When the schooner departed he called
the kanakas down to the beach ard challenged them
to throw him In wrestling bout. promising a case
Of tobacco to the one who succeeded Three kanakas
he threw. but was promptly thrown by a fourth who.
instead Of receiving the tobacco, got bullet through
his lungs.
And so began Runster's reign on Lord Howe. Three
thousand people lived in the principal village; but it
was deserted even In broad day. when he passed
through. Men. women and child ded before him.
Even the docs and pigs got ont Ct the way while the
king not above hiding under a mat The two
prime ministers lived in terror Of Bunster, who never
discussed airy moot subject but struck out with ms
fists instead
Mauki had - idea of the sort Of master he Was to
work for. FIe had had warnings and he had con-
Guided matter o. that Bunster would ne
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