FIJI NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1701, 31 July 1875, Page 3

FIJI NEWS.

Tee following items of Fiji news we gather from files to hand by the screw-barquentine Emu which arrived this morning after a 7 days run. On Monday the 12th an illuminated address, expressive of respect for his services in the annexation was presented to Commodore Goodenough on board H.M.s. Pearl by the principal Eoglish residents in Levuka. The Commodore was highly gratified at the presentation and in his reply said : —"ln the enquiry which I came here to institute, I had the happiness to be associated with an officer whose honor and loyalty will long be remembered here. If, together with him, I have helped to obtain fair consideration for this community, whose character had been greatly misrepresented ; and if, by the cession of this country to Great Britian, your interests are advanced while peace and increase are secured to our native fellow-sub-jects, I shall look back with satisfaction to our protracted labours here. In speaking of the detention in custody of two Makuata Chiefs the Times says : ".Perhaps it would save some further embarrasment if the two could be induced to die also."

A dinner to the Bau Marderuo is spoken of in the Times as the newest thing in the tapis in Levuka. The ex-king Cakokau is convalescent of the measles.

H.M.s. Pearl left Levuka for the New Hebrides on the 13th.

A fire occurred at Bau on the 11th int., which destroyed the principle buildings and the greater portion of the town. The inhabitants had to fly for their lives, and one sick native perished in the flames. A large quantity of property belonging to Cakobau, and one of his state canoes were destroyed.