FIJI.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2649, 14 August 1871, Page 3

FIJI.

By way of Auckland we have news from Fiji to July 15th. The Lovoni tribes, numbering 1000, arrived at Levuka on June 30, and gave in their submission to Cakobau. They have been sentenced to hard labor for a term of five years, as a punishment for their late rebellion. The government has appointed Judges and other officers for the Provisional Supreme Court of Fiji. At the lirst sitting the cases for trial were :—Captain, for the murder of Mr Underwood, Kabota, a Fijian, for the murder of aTanna man ; andfou ten chiefs of the Lovoni rebellion, for treason. Sentence was on the following day, when Kabota was given ten years’ hard labor for manslaughter ; and the Lovoni chiefs were sentenced to hard labor for life. The trial of the murders of Mr Underwood was postponed till next session. Some natives were sentenced to death, , but were afterwards reprieved. A horrible murder was committed on June 18 on board the ketch Edith, lying at Vagadace. Some twelve Apii men were on board, and one white man, of the name of Walter Golding, and a Tanna man, the two latter being in charge. Through the night the Apii men, it would appear, murdered the white man and the Tanna man while they were sleeping, by splitting the head of one open with an axe and the other with an adze. They then took the boat and left. Another shocking murder has been committed by the mountain tribes of Viti Levu, by which two Ba coast planters lost thdr lives. They were in a boat, when the natives appeared on the bank, asking them to come ashore and trade The two unfortunates —Messrs 'Mclntosh and Spiers —did so, when they were brutally murdered, and their bodies horribly mutilated. The planters are organising an expedition to punish the murderers. Candidates for election as delegates to construct the new Government are now offering themselves, and will be elected on tire Ist August. Dr Ryley, formerly of Auckland, is a candidate, and held a meeting last night.