FIJI NEWS.
! {KiiOM OUR OWN ''OUilK-iI'OXIJI'.XT,) ; ArcKi.ANn, February 12. i The Magellan C'ioud brings advices from | Fiji t > the 20th January. The Marion Rennie, while on a cruise spoke the schooner Mystery, which had been on a cruise to Pentecost Island in search of labor. The Mystery sent a boat's crew ashore, which did not return. She afterwards cruised close in shore, and saw the boat capsized, and learnod from a Fijian who cafne aboard that Captain ! Muir and boat's crew had been murdered and eaten. The master of the Marion Rennie afterwards saw the natives like ants round the boat, which they dragged [ into a creek. The natives at Pentecost I Island are very threatening in their atti- | i-.ayiuo fri.it they will murder i another boat's crew whenever they want I a feast.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 883, 13 February 1879, Page 2
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134FIJI NEWS. Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 883, 13 February 1879, Page 2
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