SAMOAN AND FIJIAN NEWS
Auckland, Sentember 8,
News from Samoa, via Fiji, states lh->t as toon as the wat ships left Apia hi vb t WMr between King Malittoa and the rebel ohief, T»mien, broke out afresh. It :b also reported that one of the Americi a warship Mohican’s crew was dabbed to death by a native for an insult offered <o his wife.
Tongoa news, from the same source, states basinets is at a standstill. Compton, a member of the New South Wales contingent, on a tour f->r consumption, died at Tonga on August 14 His xcellency the Assistant High Commissioner, left Fiji for Samoa by H. Mt & Miranda to attend an international conference at Apia with tie view of establishing a permanent government I There is great excitement in Fiji over Kimberley. The schooner Zephyr ie to be pot on the berth for Western Australia, I Maoin, a Fijian found guiity of brutally I murdering a chief, has been hanged at j Suva gaol. I The new American Consul A. St. John I has arrived at Suva. I
At the Supreme Court, sitting at Levuka, the case, Bank of New Zealand and Wilson v. Mnrchie, was withdrawn at the suggestion cf ihi Chief Justice. The action was to recover £1076 on endorsement of promisory notes and interest but was settled for one half, each parly paying its own costa
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1336, 8 September 1886, Page 3
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231SAMOAN AND FIJIAN NEWS Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1336, 8 September 1886, Page 3
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