LATER FROM FIJI.
(From the "Fiji Times," to the 16th July.) The Rev. Mr Vickers (Wesleyan), of Canterbury, has arrived. It. is the intention of the Wesleyan Mission to remove their District Training Institution from Kadavu. The Bau c hief has offered an eligible plot of land at Naivuini, near Bau, which will probably be accepted. Some forty settlers are located along the Nadroga Coast, which runs about eighty miles along Viti Levu, and the chief of that part has threatened severe punishment to any of the natives who may trespass upon any of the settlers. The Tongans have now a standing army, and at their Parliament, which has just been held at Vavau, all the military were assembled to do honor to the gathering of chiefs.
A very severe hurricane swept through the Friendly Islands in the month of February last, and did great damage to buildings, cocoanuts, and cotton plantations. The new wooden Mission House at Hihifo was totally destroyed, and the Rev. W. T. Rabone suffered great loss to his goods and furniture.
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Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 702, 25 August 1870, Page 2
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176LATER FROM FIJI. Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 702, 25 August 1870, Page 2
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