THE HOSTILITIES AT FIJI.
THE/Daily Southern; Cross, June.l7, says : —By the Magellan Cloud, -which left Fiji on the 21st May, pews has . arrived that Thakambau has been defeated by- the rebels;.', With' respect :to the native war, therefore,, someerror has apparently occurred, the intelligence received by,/tlie s|siooner Jeannie Duncan, via'Lyttelton, Being to the effect .-that King; Thakambau .had been victorious over the mountain natives ; but Mr/Thurston,; the, acting Englisli.consul,, who'was ; direct;;from the spot, was on board:the Magellan Cloud as she was getting under weigh, ,;and statedthal Thakambau had been beaten back, the. rebels ha.ving- gained the advantage. The intelligence brought by. Captain Shepherd, of the Jeannie Duncan: was,, that; : King i’hakambau-is fighting,/ with tlie; native mountaineers, who killed; Mr Baker, ; On the day he left there; was a great .battle between the tribes; the king lost lßomen, ahd w asivictoriQusj -'/the lo3s : of the others must have b.een great, the Christian natives being armed iWithv-niuskets,. -'/■"" . ,
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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 78, 29 June 1868, Page 155
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155THE HOSTILITIES AT FIJI. Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 78, 29 June 1868, Page 155
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