IMPORTANT FROM FIJI.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 298, 16 October 1873, Page 5

IMPORTANT FROM FIJI.

Aucklakd, October 7. The Star of the South, from Levuka, brings important intelligence. In consequence of the action of the Government in not taking step? to elect a new Parliament after dissolving the last one, open rebellion broke oat. Two months' supplies were granted before the dissolution, on condition that the elections should immediately commence. The Government intimated that they intended to destroy the Constitution and provide another, making the present Ministers permanent heads. The Chamber of Commerce met and resolved to bond their goods and close their stores rather than pay further duties, till a new Parliament was elected. Public meetings protested against all the Government. Mr Redman, the representative of a large German firm, chartered a schooner, and has gone to Sydney to telegram the state of Fiji to Berlin, and to ask for a German man-of-war. Captain Simpson, of the Blanche, said he would not interfere. Being ordered to recognise the de facto Government, he prepared to quell the disturbance ; but the people determined to wait patiently the arrival of the English Commission, and to submit their grievances to it.