Planter Murdered
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While Recruiting in N. Hebrides
A FRENCH planter, named Paul Mazoyer, who was a resident of the island of Aore—a small island which lies in the narrow strait between Santo and Malo, in the New Hebrides—was murdered by Malekula natives at the end of Octo ber.
M. Mazoyer had gone along the coast of Malekula, in his cutter, on a recruit ing expedition, and it appears that, while he was lying in his boat, at anchor in a sheltered bay, the natives came aboard and attacked and murdered him.
The planter’s body, with five bullet wounds in it, was taken home by his native crew.
Mazoyer is the first European to be murdered by natives in the New Hebrides since 1923. A Presbyterian Missionary, Rev. William Milne, was killed by a mad native in the New Hebrides about two years ago.