SAMOA AND FIJI

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2305, 18 December 1889, Page 2

SAMOA AND FIJI

(PBK PB.HBS ASSOCIATION.) Auokla^d, December 16 The following Item U from Fijian files : --it (a undorotood thait bts Bxojllency the Governor, L»dy Tnuraton and family iv to -id leaving for a visit to New Ze»lapd by the Arawata, whloh la announced to anil on the 18th inst. Newt by the ateames Wolnul from f-'«moa states that the natives have now fairlj/ tided over the destitution whloh many of them had to beat the last six months. Tho planting of food was gonerelly carded oat nil over the Islands aftor th« "penoo, Arrangements have been entered into between the contending patties, and provlaltr. i are now fully available. Nowa reaetved by the tame steamer states that the trouble m connection with tho Auokfaud sohooner 0 ive has been oe tied. Thia dispute aros« throagh Colonel De Ooetlogan, British Consul at Samo*, orderiag Oaptain Kote, iYfasttß of the Olive, to convey back to Walllo Island • number of nstves of that locality who had forced a passage to Apia on board the achootiev. Captain Hobo demurred to taking the fatonderfl back free cf ooat, avd the Oonsnl, finding that ho waa not obeyed, detained the voxel's pupors. Tbe 0 nsnl, however, has scut the papers to Yavau to tho vessel,' and the Olive la now on her way to Auokland.