FIJI NEWS.
(I>KK PKESS AGEXCY.) H.M.S. Sapphire brought to Fiji Hunt, concerned in lynching case at Samoa He has appealed to the Supreme Court of Fiji against his sentence of twelve months' imprisonment. The brigantine Bobtail Nag has been wrecked in Vitu Harbor. The crew got ashore. Governor Gordon offered to reduce the indemnity of the Samoa authorities for the Barracouta affair to G'ooo dollars, which the Samoans refused to pay, and afterwards rejected two separate sets of articles of treaty. The meeting at Parokengo is over. There was a great deal of talk, but very little was done. The native speakers all asserted their determination not to concede large blocks of land to the Government, but either to return the money or a portion of the land instead. It was said the Government had held the matter over, and through the delay it was lost to sight altogether. They threaten that any surveys carried on without their consent would cause trouble, and the party would perhaps be killed and eaten, They had heard there was a new Government formed, but they did not believe it to be true—they were in the dark.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 597, 1 April 1878, Page 2
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