LATER FROM FIJI.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVII, Issue 4177, 3 January 1871, Page 3

LATER FROM FIJI.

By tb.6 arrival of the schooner ' Kauri' we have a copy of the Fiji Times dated December 21, h>ow which ive make the following extracts :—": — " The attention or labour-seeker^ is now drawn to the Solomon Islands, since the prosperous voyage of the ' Kestrel' this time in that group. The ' Sea Gull/ cutter, Captain Place, arrived here last Friday, with the first direct shipment of produce from the windward side of Vuna Point. She brings a full cargo of maize from Mr. Dicksons plantation, Delena. The want of sailors is felt in Fiji; almost every day we see captains or agents on the look-out for men ; the cheapness of liquor is one cause of this, and the custom of the port being to deliver goods at the consignees' doors, gives Jack plenty of opportunities for indulging. — Dr. Brown has been subjected to the process known as 'turkey trampling,' by some Levuka natives he had hired. Mrs. Brown hearing the noise ran to her husband's assistance, and the rascals attacked her ; but, fearing that some other whites would come to the rescue, they ML Dr. 3rown got some severe cuts about the head and hands, his clothes were torn, and all loose ca<*h in his pockets missing ; his watch-ch(un, too, was broken. — ~From Rewa we leatn that twenty-eight of Mr. Reece'a natives, brought from the Solomop Islands, have decami ed ; they took away a small canoe. — The Solomon Island men who ran away from Messrs. Strang and Finlay's plantation at Taviuni were seen near Kadi last week. Mr. Lee, of Namina, and Mr. Sturfe, lately of the Levuka Hotel, started for the Ba River on busines u *on Sunday week, and left there on Thur by. The first night after leaving the Ba Ver they encamped within four miles of a ooat which they could see lying near a reef ; in the morning they saw there were twenty men, who wished to board their boat and were well armed with tomahawks, knives, and at least one gun. Mr. Sturt recognised them as the runaway Solomon Islanders, and made for Mr. St. John's place. The plantation boat was manned, and Messrs. Lee, Sturt, Captain Fuller, and Mr. St. John's son went in the other and came up with the runaways, who gave in and were disarmed. Great credit is due to the gentlemen that effected the capture, as twenty desperate men might have found many more victims, and perhaps white men would have been killed. A. murder has been committed, and if it is hushed up without a foil inquiry it will do great injury to the .labour trade."

A case of female daring is related of an Alkansas belle, who rode the edge oi a precipice, and defied any man m the party wifcfy -whom die was riding to follow her. Not a nuut accepted the challenge ; bat a tantalising jyoafcU stood on his head j^n the saddle, ■^ftdd*wd.thAUd^ t»4»th*t, ij^.