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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 1013, 10 May 1871, Page 2

Two men have been recently convicted at Ennis, Limerick, Ireland, of perpetrating a brutal outrage, by way of a practical joke, upon an intelligent little boy of 8 years of age. Under pretence of making him a Freemason they burnt him so severely with a red-hot pok<*r as to cause his death. The Lord Chief Baron, on their conviction, sentenced them to nine months' imprisonment each, with hard labor. The Fiji Times gives utterance to the following warning :—" Now that the hurricane season has about passed, and that vessels will be frequently ai riving from the colonies, and bringing down a stream of immigration, we must raise a warning voice against any influx of men .without means seeking to better themselves. Caipenters, shipwrights,, and blacksmiths do pretty - well, but already we have- as many as can find remunerative employment; whilst for men to come here seeking situations as overseers is folly, The only class of persons who may expect to bettor themselves are those who are possessed of energy and cash, and who can not only rough it, I ait likewise bear a good deal of disappointment, for that is the lot of every settler in Fiji,"