FIJI NEWS.
Auckland, This day. H.M.S. Nelson arrived at LeA'uka from Suva on July 9. News is to hand from Na Durie, the chief town on the Macuata coast, of a murder. The victim was the husband of a Avoman who is said to havo formed an improper relation with another man, and her paramour is accused of the murder. He was arrested by the native officers. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company has accepted a tender for the erection of receiA'ing stores at Levuka. The big sugar mill at Rewa has began Avork again. There is sufficient cane ready and ripening to keep it at steady work night and day up to the end of the year, an output being maintained from 10 to 50 tons a day.
The brigantine Meg Merrilees has returned to Suva from New Britain and New Ireland, obtaining 109 recruits at the former island, -1 at the latter, and 2 at the Solomons.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3746, 18 July 1883, Page 3
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161FIJI NEWS. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3746, 18 July 1883, Page 3
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