FIJI NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 115, 18 May 1925, Page 3

FIJI NEWS.

HELENA FLOATED. (From Our Own Cirrnapon-Innl > SUVA, May 17. As reported in my lust letter thn auxiliary schooner Helena was wrecked on a coral patcb some two to two and ahalf miles away from the nntive capital of Ban laßt week. The owner.* i ri.-cl to refloat her, but eventually gave np the effort, and she was ahuncLouod I" llir-. Liverpool, London and (ilnbe Insimi-.i.-n Company, who had her covered fur £|H'i(> (value £5000) against, total losr. Thn local agents entrusted the salving of her to the local linn of Williams and Gosling, and on Monday Captain (J. .sling and a crowd of natives went aloi.g uith. punts and a launch, and hcni in a message yesterday that they lvi 1 refloated the vessel and hoped to bring her into Suva harbour to-day. The chance of refloating the Helena looked very slim as very heavy weather sH in on Saturday night, with rolling swells, and the. masts of the Helena were β-vu "> roll up into rew as, she Iny in two tv three fathoms on thy tdge of the reef. She is of 98 tons, and v very handy tjpe of inter ;.o]aa(] cuflier. . THREE PERSONS DROWNED. Very heavy rain <.n .Saturday night brought the Wuidina Kivnr and the Rew a River down bankers, and -In feet above ordinary level. Then- win n considerable amount of dnmnpe done, and unfortunately the loss of tliren lives. Tun were Indians, who were swept iiwny in tha floods, while trying to save properly, nv.d only the body of one was reeiivernd. Then, on Monday, a J'ijian boy about K» years old was at the bridge hi ihe native town on the lower Rewa, of l,omnnikoro, where tho debris had endangered i he bridge, and a great many natives had gathered to clear the s-tuif uwny. 't Im> boy fell in and got tangled in 11,;, debrm and could not pet lip. Hμ body wan swept away and it was found \.-i.n!;iy on tho ocean beach. Scvi-nil fruit piuiLil are reported to luive [••••■!■ lost, and till) Waidina bridge luid -i h.mtmw c.-nip.-. NEW ZEALAND'S LEPERS. Thn published >..■«.« I hat Ihe New Zealand Govcrnmr.nl l,nd nrrnn-rcd wilh thu Kiji adniiiiistrntu.il Dial :i!l llm I l>.,mirii..n"H |.|..ts felioiiM lie .■ in 1.. I he. J Fiji Island nation lit .Makupii hnH not 1,,.',n reccivrrl in Ihn capital with any m-eat .M-r.s of rej'.ielny It i- felt that, wo have enough to lii-nr ulreiuly with ;,II thn unjust "thingH that Australia is saying iibuut the so-called Ninjratoka tl:'--:i*r and ether Ihings, and that if wn are to have the general clearing house for the lepers of the I'aeinc it will