LATEST FROM FIJI.
[By lelegbaph.]
_ , Auckland, May 12. The Dauntless from Fiji brings the following items of news:—There is great mortality among children at Levuka. About 500 natives died at Koro Island lately. A gentleman from Kewa gives a very sad account of the ravages the measles is making throughout that district. He says it is hardly possible to realise the abject misery that exists. Children of tender years, whose parents lay victims to the complaint, would be huddled together without food or sustenance. Starvation steps in to harrass the patient should his constitution master the disease, and the end of the unfortunate sufferer thus rendered all the more painful. Whale fishing has been commenced by a local party. J
Two tons of sugar arnved at Levuka from the Rewa works, and realised 1.28 per ton. The measles has somewhat abated, and the natives are arriving at Levuka with produce. , The distillation of ruin has been commenced in the Group. Levuka at present is full of planters. All speak hopefully of the future if the land question is speedily settled.
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Evening Star, Issue 3811, 12 May 1875, Page 3
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180LATEST FROM FIJI. Evening Star, Issue 3811, 12 May 1875, Page 3
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