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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1798, 22 August 1906, Page 69

The deportation of Kanakas from Queensland is the subject of ain article in the “Fiji Times,” in which it id pointed out, incidentally, that the term “ Kanaka ” as used in Australia- signifies a native of any of the many Western Pacific islands. In Fiji the Kanakawould be described as a Polynesian. The! “ Times ” fears that a great wrong may, be inflicted on the Kanakas in sending thean back to savagedom, and suggests that they should be taken to Fiji, where l they would all find employment. “To compel these people to return to the lands of their birth would he regarded} with extreme displeasure in Fiji, and no one at all intimate Avith them would! lend co-operation to enforce any unrighteous mandate of the kind. A block of land could easily be secured op. Fiji to settle these Queensland outcasts upon, where they could eventually spend the rest of tncii lives. In the middle of June a Cambridge undergraduate named Gerald Buncombe Avas lying in the West Kent Hospital at Maidstone with over twenty stitches in his heart. Mr Buncombe went to see one -of the famous sights near Maidstone —a cromlech known as Kit’s Ooty House. The cromlech is surrounded by a spiked railing, and in attempting to jump this, Mr Buncombe fell, and was impaled on one of the spikes, which penetrated his chest and inflicted a wound in his heart. Mr Bunoombe was at onco removed to the West Kent Hospital, and Dr Travers, one of the honorary physicians of the hospital, sewed up tee wound in the heart.