FIJI NEWS
[By Telegraph.] Auckland, March 13. Later dates from Lovnka state that tho price for copra in-roused to JJIS 10s Captain Craig, of tho cutter Lily, dislocated his hip. A settler was committed for trial at Vianci Bay for wounding one of his laborers. Thomas Harman was drowned near Sega Toke by upsetting a boat. Captain Wright, late of the schooner Marion Rennie, was convicted of inciting one of his crew to shoot a native, and was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment, with a fine of .£25. A meeting of inhabitants resolved to ask the Legisl tare for a vote in aid of Fiji exhibits at the Sydney exhibition. A water-logged vessel, dismasted, supposed to be barque-rigged, painted black and white, with deck houses fore and aft, was sighted by the Saturn, near Levuka. Up to the present time, very little damage has been done to the plantations at Rewa by the hurricanes. The hurricane season is considered to be nearly over At a meeting at Rewa it was stated that tho Clarence River Sugar Refining Company were willing to 6pend some thousands in the erection of machinery in the island for sugar refining purposes.
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Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1583, 17 March 1879, Page 3
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196FIJI NEWS Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1583, 17 March 1879, Page 3
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