LATER FROM FIJI.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 126, 4 June 1870, Page 3

LATER FROM FIJI.

DROWNING- OF MR. D. STEWART.

We are in receipt of files of the Fiji Times to the 23rd April, from which we make extracts :—

The fine schooner Coquette, of Auckland, arrived in tins harbour last Saturday afternoon, in charge of our old friend Captain Smith, late of the schooner Flirt. She made the most extraordinary passage of seven days from anchorage to anchorage—a feat no other .vessel has yet done. We are sorry, however, to have to record a fatal accident, which happened at midnight on the 7th. April, by which Mr. D. Stewart, a passenger, 10. t his life. During the night of the 7th April there was a strong breeze blowing, with heavy sea, when the vessel gave a very heavy lee lurch, which took the unfortunate gentleman overboard. The vessel was immediately hove-to, and kept as near the place of the accident as could be, with a good look out from the masthead, and, after tacking several times for two hours without success the vessel was kopt on her course. It was impossible to put out a boat, the sea running very high and the night very dark that boat and all hands must have perilled. The Coquette brings a general cargo and a larger complement of passengers than have ever previously arrived from Auckland.

The cutter Lapwing that arrived in harbour on "Wednesday morning, from Otago, New Zealand. Left Port Chalmers on the evening of the 28th ult., passed Bank's Peninsula on the third day out, sighted Sunday Island on the Bth inst., and arrived off Ovalau on the night of the 12th inst. From Eaki Eaki, on the Ea coast, we learn that a party of some fifty natives, with a chief named Bolabola (who is no friend of tho whites) at their head, came to Messrs. Cripps and Cox's plantation, with the intention of destroying their property and driving the owners away, however, on the intervention of a rival chief, tho mischief for the present is averted.