LATER FROM FIJI.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1500, 7 December 1872, Page 2

LATER FROM FIJI.

The Green Harp Conspirators at Samoa*

Disturbances at Suva —Loss of Life.

The schooner Success, from Levuka r Fiji, arrived at Auckland on the 2nd inst. The following items of news, copied from the Fiji Time 3, Nov. 23,, appear in the Auckland papers : The Sea Gull on her lasi trip from Auckland brought down six passengers, about whom there was something mysterious. Their names were not upon the ship's clearance, and rumor, whether rightly or not, said that they were theGreen Harp speculators from Auckland, and that they had boarded that vessel as she was leaving that port. Whoever they were they arrived herein safety, and after a very short sojourn have gone out "from amongst us, because they were not of us." One of them, under the name of Fitzgerald, went as a passenger to Sydney per the Kukulau; the other live sailed per the Julia Price on Wednesday last for Samoa. Thence it will be an ea*y matter for them to obtain a passage for America. [They offered a large sum to be conveyed direct to San Francisco.] We have received particulars from Suva settlers oi an outrage in the above district, the particulars of which we append. It appears that Messrs Brewer and Joske have a large number of men from the Macuata coast working upon their sugar plantation, and these men l.ave for some time been troublesome and difficult to manage, and one of them aimed a blow with a spade at an overseer's bead, but fortunately the blow was dodged. Since then the overseers have been in the habit, we believe, of carrying firearms, On the morning of the disturbance, the signal for the men to go to work sounded as usual at about si\ o'clock, but the natives did not respond to the summons Mr Smith, the manager, theiefore took a whip and entered the men's bnre, when they immediately r.\n outside, he following them. A short distance away from their hut Ihey turned, and clustering round him, beat him to the ground. The two other overseers .seeing this immediately ran to Smith's help, when they were attacked in like manner. Smith then drew his revolver and attempted to fire, but it missed, and he struck one of the Fijians over the head with it, when it was at once struck out of his haud, the blow nearly breaking his arm, and a native attempted three times to shoot him. A neighbor seeing the first of the attack from a distance ran with all speed to the nearest settlers, saying that Smith was beiug murdered. Every one seized a weapon and rushed to try and save his life, or else to secure the murderers. In the meantime the struggle in the field was over, and the workmen and natives had collected in the bure. The settlers coming down, and perceiving that the natives were gathered indoors, concluded that the white men had been murdered in the field, and therefore surrounded the house, keeping a special guard around the doors to prevent any escape. It was at this time that the shooting took place. Two men rushed out of the bure, attempting to escape, when they were lired upon. One was shot through the body, and is since dead;. the other was slightly wounded in the cheek. Three of the ringleaders were then handcuffed, and placed in security to await trial, which was taking place when our informant left. The schooner Sea Gull left for Auckland on the 23rd November. The schooner Julia Price sailed for Auckland via Samoa on the 20th ult., with the Green Harp conspirators to bo landed at the latter place. The following are the names under which they cleared:—T. Irving, S. Smith, W. Brown, P. Kennedy, and J. Mulcare.

order. Seraphim preached the simple and very convenient doctrine that no one could enter the Kfngdoin of Heaven without sin, and lie accordingly soon made a great number of converts. One of the practices of the new sect is to cut the buck hair of the women very short, and then arrange it in the form of a star. What is the oiigin of this custom is not known, but it has been maliciously insinuated that as the female members only of the sect were *o treated, the object was to enable its founder to make a handsome income by selling their hair for chignons. Seraphim has now been arrested, and will shortly be tried as a religious impostei at St. Petersburg.