Fijian News.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 183, 10 July 1883, Page 2

Fijian News.

A correspondent of the Titnaru Herald writes thus to that journal from Suva, the capital of Fiji : — '• Business of aU kinds ia m a flourishing state here, wages are also above the usual level, the reason for this being perhaps the fact that very few people stay here, the hot, dry weather of the islands not agreeing long with them. Just now the climate is delightful, this being, if it may ba no called, the winter season, though it is as warm as an ordinary midsummer day m Tiraaru. Adults enjoy very fair health here, but the children do not get on so well, most of them being sickly. Trade with New Zealand and Australia has rapidly incrensed lately, and there is no doubt that it settlement goes on as quickly as it has done of late, Fiji will have to b 9 put into still closer communication with her neighbours, Lately the Islands have been visited by four English and one German men-of-war, one of which Her Majesty's ship Nelson, has made Suva her headquarters for the time being. One evpning lately she got her steam fog-horn to work, and .also fltshedout the electric light, both oi which greatly astonished the natives, he former especially so. When it com* menced they all set up a dreadful howl' ing, keeping it up until the fog-horn <vas stopped. What with the fog-horn's row and the natives howling, the white iolks had a aoipy \im of iV