Fbom our Fiji files we learn that the Colonial Sugar Company seem thoroughly determined to carry out tbeir enterprise in a business like manner, for we learn that the Fiona arrived at Buva from Sydney on the 15th mat. with material, and the large number of 63 artificers for the erection of their first mill on the Eewa. ' Tmt Army and Navy Gazette of London of January 22nd, 1881*, asks—" Is it actually a . fact that Sir Arthur Gordon has been draw- - ing a ialary of £5000 per annum for govern- ' ing a community of 2000 whites and 120,003 natives in Fiji? Surely this is a heavy ' harden, for such a small colony at present 'undeveloped ;. let us hope that the laborer has not been unworthy of his hire, and that he has not neglected his great responsibilities as High . Commissioner of the South Seas." One, of the first requisitions received from a newly •appointed' railway official was, " Send me a gallou of red oil for the danger lamps,"
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3842, 22 April 1881, Page 2
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169Untitled Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3842, 22 April 1881, Page 2
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