MASSACRES IN FIJI.

Evening Star, Issue 4118, 9 May 1876, Page 3

MASSACRES IN FIJI.

[Bt Telegraph.]

„ , Auckland, May 9. *■ j Llewe.lyn has arrived from Levoka. Renewed disturbances occurred among the Mountaineers of Viti Levu in conseqneneo of the reported restlessness of the Hill tribe. Captains Olivo and Carow, with a force ef about 200 armed native troops were despatched from the mountain region of Viti Levu about two mouths back. They were forbidden by the mountain chiefs to continue their march into tho country, and as the object of the expedition was more to keep the insurgents quiet than to provoke hostilities, the force encamped at a resi ectablo distance. On the 18th April the two officers in charge were startled at hearing that the rebels hod descended on the opposite side of the ranges, and laid waste several coast villages near tho River Sangitoto, committing in their raid most frightful atrocities. No precise particulars of the amount of destruction done has been received, bat it was reported that thirty villages have been ravaged. In many cases the inhabitants—men, women, and children—were massacred in a most brutal manner, being thrown into tho homing houses and roasted alive. On the receipt of this intelligence Captain Olive started for Levuka as soon as possible, and conveyed a statement of the condition of affairs to the Governor. Meanwhile the Coast Chiefs did not remain idle. They collected their forces and marched against the Mountaineers. Reinforcements have been despatched from Levuka to subdue the rebels. The other news is unimportant.