Mission Destroyed in the Solomon Islands
NEWS has recently been received of the destruction of a mission and the disappearance of two English missionaries in the Solomon Islands. The reports are somewhat indefinite, but it would appear that the mission was attacked by the cannibal natives, and that, while some of the missionaries succeeded in making their escape to Sydney, two are missing, and it is feared that they have been killed and eaten. The inhabitants of the islands bear a bad reputation, and many white men, traders and sailors, have fallen victims to them at various times. The mission there belongs to the Protestant Episcopal Church, and was established by Bishop Selwyn in 1857. The islands lie to the east of New Guinea and northeast of Australia.