A WOMAN AND HE H, CHILD BURIED ALIVE. The late epidemic seems to have worn itself out, writes the Rewa correspondent of the Fiji Times, and with it thousands of her Britannic Majesty's Fijian subjects,, who in October last when annexation was concluded, little thought, that within seven months their numbers would be so terribly decreased by the white man's disease. Chief and slave, old and young, heathen and civilised, have alike fallen vcitims, all brought to the same level not only after death but before it. In most cases when # towns were smitten the missionary teachers ran away, and the people yielding to their old school teachings, threw off the shallow impression made by the missionary (which I am inclined to think has been more of system than gospel), and sought comfort in their old superstitions. In one
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Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1677, 3 July 1875, Page 2
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139Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1677, 3 July 1875, Page 2
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