MURDER IN FIJI.
DUE TO MARITAL JEALOUSY
By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.)
(Received 9.0 aim.)
London, March 18
Mr L. Harcourt (Secretary of State for the Colonies), in reply to a question, said he was in communication with the Governor of Fiji regarding the frequency of murders, which were duo to marital jealousy arising out of the inadequate number of women under indentured immigration. The Governor said there was no grounds for commuting the four recent sentences.
Mr Harcourt said he did not thin a special inquiry was necessary.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 63, 19 March 1913, Page 5
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90MURDER IN FIJI. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 63, 19 March 1913, Page 5
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