A FIJIAN ADVENTURER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 57, 12 March 1907, Page 3

A FIJIAN ADVENTURER.

| MASQUERADING AS A PRINCE. Received 11, 9.43 p.m. Sydney, March 11. During discussion at the Methodist Conference on the recommendations of the recent commission to Fiji, recommending the adm'ssion 'of natives as representatives to the Fiji Synod, the Rev. Mr iturgess, sf Fiji, said tile Fijian was not capable of dealing witii matters that would come before thai body. lle stated that, recently a man was sent, to Australia, who made ths people here the laughing stock of Fiji, i'lie man was Niko Ralmku, who was known in Australia as Rain Niko Rabuku. In Fijian, Hat u meant pr'nee, but the man had no princely blood in his veins. The t'tle was tacked on for the trip. He was only an ordinary member of his tribe, but had bee'i lauded ankl feted in Australia, the people not, knowing lie had only just been admitted to membership of the church. The story of the sham Fij an prince produced considerable disorder, attempts being mado Ito (suppress 'the matter. Eventually other business was proceeded with.