LATEST FROM FIJI.

Evening Star, Issue 3466, 1 April 1874, Page 3

LATEST FROM FIJI.

[Bt Telegraph.] (Via Auckland,) The Mongol made the outward passage to Kandavu in three days and twenty-two hours. The Tartar arrived from Sydney on the 22nd, and sailed with the passengers and mails for San Francisco the same night. On the 26th the City of Melbourne not arriving, Captain Flamank left again for Auckland, in order to be in time to take the next outward mail. The Star of the- South will probably bring on the New Zealand mails on the arrival of the City of Melbourne at Kandavu. The Mongol sailed from Kandavu on the 27th, at 6 p.m., and arrived here at 7.30 this morning. The Macgregor is much more damaged than was reported by the Marion Bennie. Numbers of her plates are completely riddled, and her keel is carried away from the foot of the foremast to the stem. It is intended, on the return of the Mongol, to lighten her as much as possible, and build a coffer dam over the injured parts, after which the Mongol will take her to Sydney. Fiji news reports a terrible canoe accident at Kow, .by which sixty-nine natives lost their lives, most of them being devoured by sharks while attempting to reach the shore. A memorial has been signed by 200 white residents, and presented to Consul Layard, requesting him to take on hinlself magisterial functions, and administer the legal affairs of the white population. The Consul has promised to return an answer shortly. A special issue of the ‘Fiji Gazette/ dated the 20th March, has the following :—“ At an interview between the King and the British Commissioners this morning, the King stated that, after consultation, he and the chiefs were Willing to cede *he Island to Great Britain.' Mr Thurston, Chief Justice St. Julian, and the leading chiefs will confer with the Commissioners and foreign Consuls respecting the formation of an Interim Government, pending a ; reply from England.