DROUGHT IN FIJI.
The general secretary of the Weileyan Foreign Missionary Society in New South Wales has recently received letters from the missionaries in the eastern parb of the Fiji Group, gjying the latest accounts of the terrible drought which prevails there. One of the missionaries, writing from the Lahemba Circuit under date 22nd March, says:—" I regret to write that the drought continues, and the situation becomes more critical each week. From Moala and Matuku the reports are such as cause great) anxiety; their food is almost; exhausted, and toe supply of water is limited. These two islands are the most fertile in my section, and so far as I can learn have never been so badly off before. On Yavea and Cikohia the people are much worse off, and will have to leave the ielands for a time at least. The Nanuavatu people have already left, some going to Mayan, others to Vanue Lew. Nayan and Ciciu are slightly better off than the other islands in Law, but they have barely enough food to eat. We art in a similar position, and have to dig wells in beds of fresh-water creeks in order to* secure drinking water.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10414, 12 April 1897, Page 5
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