Later Fiji News.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1677, 3 July 1875, Page 2

Later Fiji News.

By the s.s. Hero", we have Fiji papers to the 2nd June, from which we make the following extracts: — "Some good offers have been made for land at Kadavu, but holders are unwilling to part. The Fijians are forbidden to allow white men to be in their houses after eight o'clock at night.—A good deal of maize is planted on Taviuni, and a very I good harvest may be expected.—A public meeting has been held at Rewa to consult as to measures to be taken to prevent the spread of typhoid fever in this district, now unhappily at Levuka and Bau.—Measles are very prevalent at the .chief town of Lakeba. Some sixty natives have succumbed to the disease, and' the epidemic is still raging.— News from Kadavu state that the measles have carried off some two thousand natives." THE MEASLES PLAGUE.—ITS EFFECT ON NATIVE CHRISTIANITY.

ilJßl^^^^Oeacher died, the people "hari^d him/ and1 afterwards buried his wife »bd child Who had not died, this they said m'fiht rid them of the disease. What a staple child-like argument of the Christianfeid {'() K^??.' I wonder how many small cKJdren^ eetmeat pennies it took to bring then up to, tins state of refinement.