FIJI NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 5468, 28 January 1885, Page 2

FIJI NEWS.

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Bethell and Co , of London, of||| nitely decided to run direct/jivjUjftßH from London to Fiji, via Tasmanhfjjj|j steamers vill leave London ta'^SSJßj May, August, and November. .. -..■ m A Fire and Marine lDSuram»*Offll| haa just been formed in Suva." *$mffi already been subscribed. \ '• -' 3 An accident occurred on TueWjii Captain Coor sr, of the Bohooneji|B by bJB falling through the bat^HnU lazarette on board his vessel. &3sj& ware broken, and his loinsj^KßJb wrenched, but the aßgißtaßceofjußmi having been obtained, the snfwffiffi.'' grossing favourably. "^IwL ' A bottle with a message, fIWWBF board by Mr Consul |Belford jHM Californian mail steamer, off .P-MJJralli Samoa, in August laß.t, drifWj't|gljj Rotumah, and has been brongKraWHß| Mr Gordon. ,J Carrier pigeons ace now üßM;Jtj|ffl| Suva and Levuka, ' , _\\ Fiji produce market:—Copiy* jflg 10s per ton ; maize, 3s to Fijian tobacco, Od to Is 61 per I^SSB 5.1., in seed, 2Jd jior Ib.; Pot*'Wß per lb ; tortoise-shell, 10s 1 jarlshell, £34 to £38 per fonj.-'MSB! raer, £18 to £65 per ton; axs3§flH to 3s par 100; bananas, Is toj'3lj| About 350 acres of rano roceht&ljHl on the New Zealand Companyß,jnSffl Rarawai is looking very well, tw'^ I ing is still going on rapidly. i 'jjij The Fiji "Times " of JaniinrVtfaSu —" A piece of wood haw been Mt jßjEaa office ai a curiosity it having ai^S| by the cutter Fawn from a vessel, tyjSSB which was formerly wrecked *l Mffij Inland. The object of tho crnf jbj Fawn was, if onssible, to KJCOV*W\IS|| of oil, and tne fragment °'^'!jf*p3H looks like a portien of the!h«ad.ffifflH| is held to be an evidence u2sH Fawn did not miss its n**7ySn aa the scene of the wreck is ty^tfftfßu peculiar feature about this forgotten disaster # is that al"^Bffl declared to have been undor v^Jml three years, it presents no 0 jESjIw long immersion, and from it* WjuSg of preservation might have Pff?g|jßH in the show case of a Maseniß^nSH^ Mr W. J. Hunt's Searcli ft* tt*\ Treasure. ~'J^^^B The following paragraphs .fffljffißßi Fiji papers on the above stthi?Kss»#| Mr J. Hunt, of New Zeatofefflgp " Polynesian Gazette," a P^KfcSir j Levuka), has visited this| port {"•'SmH Fawn, after an unsuccessful attfiJ-'-^j cover a large quantity of ou at Wallis Island, some 50 JfJIIiKj finding of the wreck at all nM "^j(|ij üb; nevertheless, Buoh is tho ??|KOhH[ failure to recover any PP^o^|«hß| appears to have arisen 'w jijjiglSH without the necessary electri^alH| discharging the dynamitejjs^^J|§|| solely relied upon Bickfordfl )i which is not reliable beyond a °eP*gun )0 fathoms. Should Mi HantPMjfflm in his second ntJeiopl, fj9K wgo upon htm, in a friend KjySMlß^=j visabiiity of investing if ia JJSw^l of the same character, >nwbn it in law attacks upon tJOEB.-3[.-|^ feeble reach. '%i