FIJIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 2415, 31 May 1876, Page 3

FIJIAN NEWS.

The • Llewellyn,' which has arrived at Auckland from Lcvuka, reports that the disturbance has ceased. A severe earthquake has occurred at Savau. Two hundred acres of sugar cane at Nadi are likely to rot through want of machinery. The natives ol'Nalenn Bay have renounced Chvistinnity. A priest induced one hundred to go into the hut while they set fire to it, and granted that their power would prevent them from being burnt. Many were severely burnt, two or three fatally. Circus Tent Service.— Mr. Barlow, the proprietor of the ' Circus rioW 'performing in New Plymouth, having generously complied with a request that he should place his tent atthe disposal of the Churches on Sunday owning, it was determined to hold a meeting nt eight o'clock, so that the ordinary services should not be interfered with. The weather, stormy as it hnd been daring the greater pnrt of the previous week, was on Sunday all that could be desired, and at the hour named it was computed by Mr. Clark (Mr. Barlow's ngent), thnt uot less than 700 people had gathered in the tent, while very many left unable to gain admittance, or remained butside to hear what they could. The service was commenced by the Rev. Mr. Ihitt giving out one of Snnkey's popular hymns, after which the Rev. J. Dumbell engaged in prayer.. Earnest addresses were then delivered by the Revs. Messrs. Breach, Isitt, and Hammond* the congregation paying the most marked attention. The proceedings, which were most orderly throughout, were brought to a clone at nine o'clock. The Wesleyan Mission at Fur. — The Superintendent of the Wesleyan Missions in Fiji, writing on the Bth May, says— "There has been a little trouble here lntely. Some of the mountaineers have been up to their old games of killing and burning. I have no particulars, having only returned from a trip on Friday, but the Governor left me a note saying that the report* wei-o exaggerated, though there had been a good deal of burning and murdering, which he thought were now j at an end. It cannot be much, I am sure, I for a powerful hand will soon bo put upon I these disturbers of the peace." Giving ms Opinion.— A free and independent elector at a parliamentary electiou in Tasmania recently 'adopted n new mode of intimating his disapproval of the candidature of one of the seekers after the seat. Instead of crossing out the candidate's name ho merely attached the word " duffer" to it.

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