CRISIS AT TONGA.
KING GEORGE WANTB TO ABDI CATE OVER A ROAD ROW.
By telegraph. Press Ass’n, Copyright Suva, Feb, 21.
A serious orisis is reported to have arisen at Tooga between King Goorge aad the British Consu 1 , Mr Hunter.
The dispute is over tbe construction of a road through the King's private grounds at Tufa.
The Consul stated that the Governor c-f Fiji desired the road as a necessity, but the King considers it sn outrage, only to be submitted to because Britain is powerful and Tonga weak. The King wishes to abdicate as a proteat.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1680, 22 February 1906, Page 2
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