AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4962, 4 December 1884, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day. Francis Durant, a French seaman, was stabbed in the face yesterday afternoon by Edward Dumont, who was arrested.

Arrived: Loch Fergus, barque, Capt. Jones, 121 days from London. On October 1, Henry Percy Warren, an appren> tice, fell from aloft, and died from the injurie?. On October 28, Patrick O'Keefe, another apprentice, was lost overboard.

Arrivpd : Arawata, from Fiji. Passengers : Miss Witzell and Miss Fish, Mrs Eastgate and family (8), M»"s Manghan, Mrs Olive (two children and servant), Mrs and Master Coster, Mr and Mrs Cray, Misses O'Hara and Millward ; and Messrs Bartley, Howard, Houghton, Eyres, Darrach, Scott, Hunt, Crompton, Cohen, Dr Pounds, and 31 in the steerage. Fiji Hews, The Vanua (Levu) correspondent of the Times" says :-—" The people are dying out in these parts very rapidly. During the last 12 months, in the town of Wanuna, between 90 and 100 souls have passed away. Of the few children, the greater portion die. The people are dying for want of nourishment; Chinese bananas are the only food in the district, and the natives will not plant because they cannot ensure to themselves the result of their labor, as the Lala comes in and robs at will. The systems of the people have no resisting power against disease, and the mildest form of sickness carries them off; added to this, is the want of any stimulus to exertion. Hope even has abandoned them, and they simply lie down and die."