Fiji and New Zealand.
The Hon. W. L- Allardyce, Assistant Colonial Secretary to Fiji, who is about to visit England on twelve months leave, has arrived at Brisbane by tho Moana. , ... ~ In tho course of an interview. Mr Allardyce said the bulk of the Europeans and natives of Fiji were anxious to work out their own salvation in their own way. New Zealand, he said, bad recently endeavoured to annex Fiji, but tho Fijian natives and Fijian Europeans both objected. Fiji’s trade, Ur Allardyce added, was now close up to a million sterling per annum,' the bulk of which was done with Australia. Arms for the Ameer. Further advice has boon received regarding the hundred guns—including twelve mountain quick-firers and eighteen field piece*-—and much ammunition purchased in Germany by the Ameer of Alghanistan with the British subsidy which were stopped at PeshaWUfe The Daily Mail states that the Indian Government has finally declined to allow the Ameer’s agents to remove the guns had other munition front piehnwiir,
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Manawatu Herald, 3 February 1903, Page 3
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167Fiji and New Zealand. Manawatu Herald, 3 February 1903, Page 3
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