ALLEGED FIJI MURDERS.
FOUR PERSONS ARRESTED
[from our own correspondent.] SUVA, Oct. 15.
The Suva police received a message yesterday that an Indian named Jia had been* arrested in the province of Tholo West on October 8 for the alleged murder of an Indian called Jurnan Singh at tho town of Lavuso, near Sigatoka, on October 4. Quite a lot of Indians have recently gone into this district to cultivate sfliee the closing down of the Fiji Vancouver Sugar Company. It is a sparsely populated district and with only one policeman it is difficult to maintain order, owing to the petty quarrels among the Indians who are always quarrelling. Some eleven months ago an Indian named Bhagan Singh, who lived at Tabia, near Labasa, suddenly disappeared. Every effort was made at the time to find the missing man. He was reported to have been seen in several places, but when these rumours were followed up nothing came of them. However, a young police officer was sent up to take charge of Labasa a week or two ago, and last Tuesday he reported that be had arrested two Fijians and one Indian on a charge of having murdered Bhagan Singh.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19156, 23 October 1925, Page 8
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