OUTRAGES BY SAVAGES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2647, 1 November 1909, Page 5

OUTRAGES BY SAVAGES.

CABLE NEWS.

FURTHER PARTICULARS. United Press Association —Copyright, ■- - SYDNEY, Oct, 30. Brinskin’s station' is situated on - the island of Baggabagga. An outlaw chief named, Sito, with a band of natives as desperate as himself,- was responsible for •the-massacres. The murderers online from the mainland in boats laden with copra ostensibly to trade. They murdered all the islanders, except a boy of 10, .who swam to the mainland and gave the alarm. Missionary Nicholson, with a body of friendly armed natives, crossed to the island, but the murder...ers had gone. T.he scene presented a gruesome sight. The bodies were terribly mangled. Mrs Brinskin was killed in the water and her body was washed away. 'Sito is the terror of white traders .in the Western Solomon -Islands. It is stated that he has resolved to exterminate, not only all Europeans, but native women who ally themselves with the whites he has threatened. In the Solomons tragedy besides Brinskin’s wife and two children, three natives, two men and a woman, attached to the station, were massacred. In' connection with the tragedy at New Guinea it is stated that Dammkoliler and a companion named Okloran penetrated 200 miles up the Markham river. Running short of stores they despatched carriers fur fresh supplies, and the men were attacked while the carriers were absent. Oldoran put up a desperate fight. After liis companion had been killed, although wounded and suffering, great hardships, with the assistance of a raft he-managed_to make his way down the river to the settlement at Finchaven. Details of the New Guinea tragedy state that Dammkoliler and his companion shot down fifteen natives before being overcome.