Fiji News.
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(Pee Pbess Association.) Auckland, This day. The ship Earl of Wemysss, during a passage from Levnka to Ba, struck a sunken reef, the existence of which was hitherto unknown, and reached Ba in a leaky condition. A Taviuni planter named Kankin Wilson has been committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter of a Polynesian laborer in his employ. The laborer died in a fit some time after having received a slap on the ear from Wilson, and the post mortem examination showed abscess on the brain sufficient to account for death, but it is suspected that the slap accelerated the result. Prisoner was admitted to bail in sureties of £1000. A Fijian has been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of a Chinaman named Ah How in 1880. The Legislative Council of Fiji has adopted an address favouring the constitution of a Federal C&uncil of Australasia on the basis of tha draft bill of the Federal Conference held last year in Sydney. ______«_._»_
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4913, 8 October 1884, Page 2
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171Fiji News. Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4913, 8 October 1884, Page 2
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