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Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1807, 5 December 1879, Page 2

SOUTHSEA ISLAND NEWS. By the schooner Ovalau, at Auckland from Fiji, the following items of intelligence were received: The cl'arpe of manslaughter against the Kev. Brown, in connection with New Britain was withdrawn, Judge Q-owie stating that the report of a competent naval authority, sent by the Commodore to enquire into the circumstances attending the attack on the Natives who committed the massacres at Duke's Inland, with the report of the Governor of Fiji thereupon, waß to the effect that the case was one which should not be prosecuted. The Court would not, therefore, proceed further with it. The Rov. Browa was accordingly discharged. Planters complain of great want of sugar crußhirg michinery. A seaman on board the Mar Henderson was killed by Natives while the vessel was recruiting in the New Hebrides. The war at Samoa continues. The British, American, and German Consuls have declared part of Samoa neutral country and constituted themselves judges of it, and arrested an American subjeot on a charge of assault. He impugns the authority of lite Court, and intends fco take ftotion.