Fiji News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 7, 26 June 1884, Page 3

Fiji News.

•♦ . i . i ( d Star) s Lkvtjka, June 12. I The Chamb- r of Commerce in t Levuka iis agffatinif the tnatter of • telegraphic and tefepuonic cominuni-. cation between. , Suva aud Levuku. ; J Edison's Sydney agents thinks this. ; i may be secured in a complete mauuei ••[bi|'£B,6oQ. : • ''I V\ hooping'-cou«rh is dangerously prevalent amoiig ' the Fijians, and ' j is cau»ingf mortality such as to attract H attetition. Natives call it the va s koli (dog coujfh'), i Privute information from Taviuui [ says that^ owing- to the late re^u- . lations raquirinjr beef to be supplied . to Polynesian labourers, the, price of t cattle breil on y 'the island is rifling- | high (£4. 10r 12 months calves on the ' j Alpha Estate ; 3-year old heifers, £B,j 1 cows £12 t0. £15). , . A Fijian, .Njjfiranjrf'uh, who some-, time since in homicidal mania hacked ffarFully; a married daughter of Capt. ' Ma'ughr.n, on jOvalau, and who was • sect to -Kuva jraol iii'c9nseq»ence !? ;Uus • jurt mh(l£' t^iiother horribk .pujUfeuk, , i w<un(led oiie man and knifed ajnother.;, i IJse stooaiivithe gaol yard with. 'other , prisoners, and suddenly -seized uspaHe aiid cleft the skull of ; a Enropeau 7>risoner named ' Murray, who was under sentence for ,au attempt to munler his own wife. A couh'uee tor embezzlement, Meuser. who tried to shield., Murray, bad his arm broken by the maniap. A very pamtul- feelinghas been stirred ajrainst the authorit(ps for £llo'wl:r«r' a bo • 'weil-kno#n furious brute to 'j*o unionist otb :^r: prisoners .-md to have access to iron iuipleiuents. \n excellent map ( of ithe main islan . of Group Nuvitilevu, shnwinpland held by Kuropoans, together with -a Mnstil cliarr of the whole group in : one corner, ha=» lately been issued by Mr Juines VVyld, London, Geographer •to' Tier '•■• HJe>ty. It was compiled' from the latest ''.io.y-Tin'nont, sufv<-yH. and is .the. v«cy .newest thjug ' of iis'k'iriil benriug np^n^Fiji,. .. : ; .. ; .