TONGAN NEWS.
The Tongan correspondent of the Fiji Times, writing under date March 30, says : —" The whole land at present is turned pretty well upside down, owing to a whim of the old Icing, who is shortly to proceed to "V avau, where a grand lakalaka is to be held, and the young people from Tonga and Haabai are under orders to proceed there shortly, and not to go empty-handed either, but to provide funds for presents to the chief a," &c, Ac, For the last month, in anticipation o£ this event the people (much against their will) have been forced to go to the principal towns to learn, forsooth, to dance. If they object to go they are thrashed withaut mercy by order of their superior chiefs. This is against the law, in violation of the constitution granted to the people by the king. The Premier (Rev. S. "W. Baker) is not at all to blame in the matter—is, in fact, dead against the people being thus obliged to waste their time over these miserable daneea.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1886, 2 May 1889, Page 3
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177TONGAN NEWS. Temuka Leader, Issue 1886, 2 May 1889, Page 3
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