FIJI NEWS.
[PBHSS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.]! AUCKLAND, April 18. News received by the Taiaroa to April 12th gives hope that the missing schooner Edith may yet be trading among the islands. The barque Kobert Hine reached Fiji, 180 days out from London The shippers had given her up and had forwarded claims for insurance. The “ Fiji Times” advocates the relaxation of the vexations restrict ons at present interfering with the legitimate relaticnshp that should exist between European employers and native laborers.
The Mago Island Company have made arrangements to extend their operations in Fiji, and with that ohjset have purchased the properties of Messrs Bo ichin, McEvoy and Borron, on the Islands of Cicii and Kauicia. The consideration is said to be over .£00,1)00.
His Txcellenoy has received a telegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonics, informing him that the emigration agent of Fiji in Calcutta has been authorised to forwa-a, if posable, 200 Coolios, and his Excellency the Governor, attended by Oapt. Herbert, A.D C., and the Hon. Q. J. Lambert, has been visiting Suva and other places.
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2506, 19 April 1882, Page 3
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180FIJI NEWS. Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2506, 19 April 1882, Page 3
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