LETTER FROM FIJI.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 462, 4 July 1871, Page 3

LETTER FROM FIJI.

A COBBBSrOHDKNT writing from Levuka, Fijis, to a friend at the Thames, under date of June 17» says:— ""There is not muoh new here, although warriors are coming in hundreds; there cannot be less than 3000 here now. All they have done as yet, however, is harmless; They have driven the Kai Levonis into Toya peak, an almost impenetrable mountain with war fences around it, and will no doubt surround it, with the intention of starving them out. They killed one man yesterday, and a few paraded the beach this morning, singing and shouting their war songs, and carrying aloft the dead hand of the slain man as a trophy at victory. This is about all the fighting that has taken place for some time past. "We have a Government now—self-elected too. Only imagine S. C. Burt causing himself to be elected Premier by Cacobau with G. A. Woods. They had no requisitions nor •lections, bat elected themselves, and are issuing Government gazettes and praclamaturns, making pilot charges, &c. It cannot pit though.'—jUf.-.-', 3rd Instant.

An inspection of Mr. P. H. Lewisson's shop, nearly opposite the Union Bank, Lower Queenstreet, will show what can be done in the manufacture of jewellery in Auckland. There rings, lockets, brooches, earrings, and other forms of jewellery, manufactured in Mr. I/ewisson's shop in Albert-street, are spread out in tempting profusion, and are no less remarkable for their variety and originality, than for their tastefulness, and their very excellent -workmanship. We cannot undertake to describe here the various huds, leaves, plants, flowers, and other things, formed out of gold, silver, quartz, greenstone, cornelian, kauri gum, and other materials selected for the purpose. They must be inspected, in order to their being appreciated, and this they will be largely by the favourers of colonial industries. Mr. Lewisson's jewellery has, of course, to compete with the cheaply worked productions of Great Britain and the Continent of Europe, but from this it has nothing to fear. Its superior yuality and greater durability will not only tend to its being largely worn here, but to its being extensively exported. Those desiring to send presents home will find all they could wish in Mr. Lewisson's shop to select from. Many of the articles for inspection and sale are as unique as they are beautiful. Mr. Lewisson's investment of capital, spirit at enterprise, and artistic skill deserve all the countenance and support that can be accorded ' to him.— Evening News. —[Advt.]