FIJI NEWS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), 6 November 1883, Page 3

FIJI NEWS.

Auckland, This day

By the Penguin Avhich arrived yesterday from Fiji the following items of Fiji news have been received : —

The schooner Energy reported at Levuka having been among the islands as far as Bank's Group. On arriving at Api, one of the stations Avhich belong to the owners of the schooner, it was found that a trader at the station named Edward M'Ewan was shot the day before. A coast tribe say that some bushmeu first killed their chief and afterwards killed M'Ewan. In going north towards Bank's Group the Energy touched at Aoba, when she heard that another of the vessel's traders, a Frenchman named Matthieu Ferri, had been tomahayvked in a small cutter belonging to the company for which the Energy trades. He was killed whilo buying- nuts. A Mallicolo boy and one Lifou boy swam ashore and eventually saved the cutter, although she had been completely looted. At Rewa a fitter named Archibald AVilson, in the employ of tho Colonial Sugar Company, was brutally murdered by some person or persons unknown. Captain A. J. Rustel, a gentleman of Samoa, bought a vessel named the Vavan. After the vessel had been repaired Captain Rustel told his friends on shore he Avas going out in tho 'Vavan in order to test her sailing capacities, and said he would return in two clays, but nothing has since been heard of the vessel, although some months have elapsed since she left Samoa for her two days' cruiso. There is very little room for doubt as to the fate of the vessel and all on board.