MR. SEDDON AND FIJI.
According to the Premier the ordinance recently passed in Fiji stipulating three months’ imprisonment as punishment for anyone causing a Fijian to become disaffected against the Government means that one Fijian will be unable to converse with another about self-govern-ment or federation with Australia, or federation with New Zealand. At the present time in Fiji, he declared, a magistrate is liable to be pulled over the coals if he gives a decision-which is not in accordance with the Governor’s wishes. That had already been done in the case of the Acting-Chief Justice and the Minister for Public Works'
Commenting upon Mr Napier’s question with reference to the recent ordinance and Mr Seddon’s reply, the Auckland Herald says '•—“ Apparently neither of these gentlemen was aware that a law precisely similar was passed in the Cook Island on the 22nd August, 1899, was formally approved by the British Resident, was duly reported by him to the Governor of New Zealand, and is now among the laws which the Premier proposes to consolidate and incorporate with the statutes of New Zealand.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 3 August 1901, Page 3
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182MR. SEDDON AND FIJI. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 3 August 1901, Page 3
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