TROUBLE IN SUVA.
RUMOURS OF A RISING
INDIAN SEDITION-MONGERS
By Telegraph—Press' Association. AUCKLAND, February 4.
A Suva correspondent Wri-tes undeF date January 26th: —"For a 1 loffg. time past there have been rumbas of an Indian r : sing in the sugar districts. Seditious literatur vhas been coining into the country, and in several instances the postal authorities have been able to seize and destroy it. The big coolie steamer Sangolia is expected here in a few days with close on 2,000 Indian emigrants. This vessel is reported by local compatriots to have several seditiormangers aboard, anJ an uprising lb' timed for when they shall come ashore and inflame their countrymen to fighti -g pitch. In Suva we are ratlief inclined to look on the talk of a as a bit of what is called in East 'blinder' or 'bazaar gup.' Now, however, white residents in .the cane districts ai'e promptly laying in stores of arms and ammunition, , sad the Government has already j been notified of the talk from the | 'lines.' At present, at Lautokfl Bd,< Labasa, and Nausori, the coolies" outnumber the whiiei 1 by many than 100 to 1, so it will be seen thai* situation is an ugly one if trouble Most of the male adults and" §u¥6peans outride Suva are members <7^lb6a? ; riffle clubs, and possess Lee 6f the latest pattern, but the dangWik iVi the distance thair homesteads The Fijians can always be derlfetidtfd' on to stand loyally to the whiteS liftrouble of this kind; they have thfi ? utmost contempt for the Indians."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3108, 5 February 1909, Page 5
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258TROUBLE IN SUVA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3108, 5 February 1909, Page 5
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