O’Brien v. Seddon.
THE GOVERNOR USES MORE STRONG LANGUAGE.
[By Telegraph—Press Association.] Auckland, last night. News by the Hauroto states that Sir George O’Brien, oil leaving Fiji, was presented with an address by the chiefs, who expressed their full satisfaction with the Governor’s actions, and thanks for all he had done for the natives.
Sir George O’Brien replied. lie said that they had spent much money on water supplies, hospitals, and other works for the benefit of the Fijians, which did ffdt please the Now Zealand party, who wanted to take away the land the P’ijians gave to the Queen, and to break their indispensable commercial system, separate tho natives from the land, and get the land and Fijian cheap labour themselves. The New Zealand pi rty thought foul, brakish water was good enough for tho Fijians to drink. They should remember this whenever they drank good, whole*, some water. The New Zealanderd hid been provided with ’ emissaries, mostly renegade Fijians, tyho had been sent to the provinces to create trouble, but a law had been passed making this penal. The Natives now had nothing to fear, and should not be goaded by any act of violence.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 183, 10 August 1901, Page 2
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