The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-08-10 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ISLANDS.  A telegram received from Brisbane a few dap, ago announced that a British Protectorate has bees established over the Solomon Islands in the Western Pacific. The latest mail news, however, is not very satisfactory. It is stated in the ZS'ydney .7forning Herald that murders and tribal wars in the Solomon group continue. The natives, left to their man-killing and man-eating propensities, carry on a continual warfare with one another. Between Malayta, San Christoval, or Guadalcanar there is little to choose as places to te avoided, or at least very circumspectly approached, by small boats. One of the crew of the Saucy Lass, a vessel that reached Sydney recently, says that at San Christoval a white man's head they mean to have, two or three if possible, and it matters not who the unlucky " paleface " is that first steps ashore. Three of the native "boys" are said to have been killed by the natives of another island while they were working for a trading vessel, arid satisfaction is demanded. On the island of Guadalcaner the coast natives keep up a constant guerilla warfare with the inland tribes, and cannibalism is rampant. All sorts of pretexts are invented to justify a head-hunting expedition, but the fact seems to be that it is human flesh for food that is really the attraction. On tdalayta it is certain that bodies of natives after burial have been exhumed by near relatives, who have afterwards feasted upon them. The attractions tor moneymaking in the Salomons is not nearly se great as it was years ago, the native 3 being by practice better able to estimatthe actual value of their copra, and whil • such is the case the risks run by the trader appear to be by no means diminished. At almcs' all the islands a man must be armed to the teeti. before he ventures his foot upon the native territory. Altogether, such conditions of commerce ai govern the relations with the Solomon Islands or not enticing.  Herr Sigismund de Rosty, Austro-Hungarian Minister at Teheran, was suddenly attacked with illness at an hotel in Vienna on Wednesday night. and died, although medical assistance was promptly requisitioned. He had been suffering from ildhealta for a considerable time past, and had only returned to Vienna on Tuesday from a lengthy sojourn at his estates in Hungary. Prior to his residence at Teheran lie acted as Austro-Hungarian Consul leral and Diplomatic Agent at Cairo The International deep-sea soundings in the North Sea and the Baltic began on the Ist instant. A British Expedition is investigating the waters near the Shetland Islands, while the Germans, under Professor Kiimmel, of Kiel, are examining ti' Western part of the Baltic; the Swedes the Skager Rack as far as Christiansand, and the Danes the Cattegat and the Sound.  Mr. W. K. Van&rbilt's new yacht the lsfla just completed by Messra.Laird Brothers,of Birkenheaci, at a cost of £200,000. has sailed from the Mersey for a trip to Scotland preparatory to her departure for America. The Valiant is said to he the largest yacht afloat, being 312 feet long and 2,400 tonnage, with engines developing 4,500 horsenowcr. Her fittings are of the most luxurit, • character.  At Stourbridge a man named Hubble met with a -hocking death through his home bolting, in cense,!uence of being startled by a dog. Mrs. Elizabeth Cartwright, the wife of a shopkeeper living in the village of South Levertom Nutta,was stung on the thumb by • wasp, and died within a quarter of an hour. The creditors of Hart and Co., ribbon manufacturers, Coventry, the late manager and clerk of which are now undergoing imprisonment for fraud, i.ave met. There is a gross deficiency of £20.000.