TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1396, 4 December 1884, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[peb rossa association.] A Home Vessel. Auckland, To-day. Arrived —Loch Fergus', barque (Capt. Jbnes) r 121 day* from London. On Oct. Ist Henry Percy Warren, an apprentice, tell from aloft and died from his injuries, md on Oct. 28th Patrick O’geefe, another apprentice, was lost overboard. The Fiji Steamer. Arrived —Arawata, from Fiji. Passengers: Mias Witzell and Miss Fish, Mrs Eastgate and family (8), Mfs Ganghan, Mrs Olive and two children and servant, Mrs and Master Coster, Mr and Mrs Gray, Misses Obira and Willwand, and Messra Bartley, Howard, Houghton, Syre, Darsack, Boott, Hunt, Crompton, Oohen, Dr Pounds, and thirty-one in the. steerage. ■ Sickness in the Islands. A correspondent of the Fiji ’ Timet says that the people are dying out in these parts very rapidly. Daring last 12 months in one of the towns of Waino, between 90 and 100 souls have passed away. Of the lew 1 children the greater portion died, Btbe ppople are dying for want of Isbatent. China banana is the only foodin ihe district. ‘ The natives will not 'rtfiliinf 1 banrn*** Mwimtantmn tr them- ] ■ the result of their labpr. The gomes id and robs at prill. The sys,tem* ol the people have no resisting pdwel against the disease, and the mildest -form of sick Bess carries them oft Added 1 tokthift ,ia ithelyrant of any stimulus to e¥en has been abandoned |hylhem,and they simply lie down and sf. ,i _- « A Stabbing Caser4%J^ahri*' l lh>nu>t J a French seaman, was ffrbbodinthefaoe by Edward Dimani arrested.