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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 186, 27 September 1872, Page 3

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The schooner Jessie Nicol arrived at Auckland on the 20th inst., Fiji news to September 6. The Hon! A. Woods left for Sydney and Auckland for the purpose of negotiating a loan, and measures for the establishment of a bank for Fiji. The French war ship Van Dreill visited Botumah, and inflicted sundry fines on the Protestant natives. The chiefs refuse to pay, and have written to the Commodore of the Australian station offering to cede the islands to Great Britain.

. The war in Samao still continues, neither side gaining any advantage. The natives are all armed with lent weapons, Snider's, Henry's, &c. A naval engagement recently took place ; one vessel was sunk, all hands being drowned. At one battle, over 100 were killed. There is no prospect of a cessation of hostilities. The American companies are busy buying up land, and several large G-erman vessels are loading at Levuka. At Eewa, there has been a disturbance on Storck's plantation, but now everything is quiet. The rumors of open dissatisfaction at Tiviuna have no foundation. A horrible outrage was committed at Vana Point. Two men quarrelled, and the one attacked. and killed the other. The murderer is now awaiting trial. At Vitu Levu great disturbances are impending. During the past mouth the natives have been fighting, killing and eating-one another/ At* present five of the most powerful tribes of Fiji, including the whole of the interior of Vitu .Levu, are in a state of commotion. On the river the natives are very insolent to the settlers. Scarcely a plantation has escaped robbery.