BRITISH BOUNCE IN FIJI.

Evening Star, Issue 2868, 29 April 1872, Page 3

BRITISH BOUNCE IN FIJI.

A private letter received in Dunedin, contains (fate)' alia) the following, a story almost too good to be true, but the correctness of which any resident of Levuka will vouch for, is now going the round of Fiji “ Lest you should be in the dark as to the nibch of civilisation that we have reached here, I must inform you that we have now a real live king and court, with its attendant accessories of prime minister legislative chambers, chief secretary, master of the horse, mistress of the robes, &c., Ac. Oui prime minister is a man’of both \ ictonan and New Zealand celebrity, and by means of considerable ability and an amazing amount brass has worked himself into, and maintained his present position. Not long ago one of the sous of our dark-skinned sovercign was standing in the verandah of one of the hotels in Levuka, drinking a green cocoa nut, when a young clerk, named Rudd, came up, and knocking the cocoa nut up, enquired, • Halloa, Tim old man. how goes it. Prince Timothy laughed good humouredly, but poor Rudd, who by the way is only a Government clerk, had to learn thedangerof intimacy with royal highnesses. Behind him stood noless than his chief, the premier, who, after gazing awhile f in blank astonishment, acclaimed •with holy anger and pious grief— How dare von sir, presume to insult a prince of the royal blood by playing practical jokes on him—consider yourself at once dismissed from the Government service. And dis missed he was.”