THE TONGAN DIFFICULTY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2560, 30 March 1887, Page 2

THE TONGAN DIFFICULTY.

United Press ; ( Auckland, March 28. , Mies Baker, and Shirloy Baker jim., i .are progressing favorably, ; ' , ■ The following, is a letter of protest r addressed to- Mr-Baker'.by British i. .Bubjects, residentm '' Nukualofa. '• Sir f —We the undersigned Europeans, r e y. c ' ont Toiign, ; be/» -.to protest ■■ agjiinsL much that bus taken place in , this uuhnppy country since 13th of ■ last month (January).. We do not ■ wish to 6xp,i'tiate;on tho causes which' . for tliree yesrs and more, have,Jed-up to the present trouble. .-.We queation, . ait .the. preapnt.. mom en t/ :n ei ■' tli e' : .justice, nor, the expediencyof the late ■©xecutiori3. Thd 1 C'oin ta of. Jostico' have"been ;aiid a rer;* una bid. 'io..fbi;ia, aii- opinion-; .' "j. we"! most : ' : respeotfiilJjH . protest, agains!, a?d fesl,i»ucli- abhol'- , renca at, tho, fearful way'in -which 1 an unoffending poptilatibii' hag been treated, .both as to.'their pereongaoxl property, botlt b! which, in . a country professedly christian and: ; civilised, should be uatlep -tle protection of the laws. We have the leSs limitation' in thus' protesting as their sole crime has been, as far. as we knoi', a natural, desire, to. remain adherents'jo the religion in which their fathers, and; , perhaps their igrandfathers were,, born. 'We have the honor to be, siii,-,your: obedient servants, T. ]j. W. Parker, and 22 others, Nukualofa 23rd February, ,1887. The Fiji correspondent writes on the l 8 th instant The schpcincr-Matakuta,

belonging to the native Governor bf -•men, .women, and children—who jiave been forcibly doported and sent to Fiji "by order of the King," They, -were fourteen duys on the trip, and, whenrthey arrived, had exhausted fond aii? water. What to do with them when they arrived seemed to puzzle Sir CMea Mitchell, ..The captain of||e vessel was aTongan, and there were/to" 1 white men on' board. •He said ;bJ$ .orders were to Jand.them-if permitted, and'if he wfere told to take.thenTa way be aliould do_ so, and land .them-jat the first plncehe came to outside Fyir Thk ■might -have meant,- marooning-them among hostile Ravages, and so; after they had been detained twenty-four hours on board;-.the Government boats, brought them- on -shorn, and a more pitiful and respectable looking get of conspirators never yet diagramed the title. ;{ffiey'can bawl psalms;wrth the' lungs' of town bellmen, arid 'with no niQVfl respe'et for diatonic aiid chrorpatio .intorvalii tbari bus a steam syren or a pig with its..tail in £' vice; hut they don't appear to be able to conspire worth n red ; wnt> Sir Charles,- .has taken-, under his'wiiig, anij ineans tochargn Tonga with their'uiaihtenanoe! The -Suva brought 20 more, and another ' schooner (the' Falapgaogo) arrived on Sunday' (the' 20th)iwith 36 Others; " : , v -