LATER FROM FIJI.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2033, 10 July 1875, Page 3

LATER FROM FIJI.

By way of Sydney we have received per Mikado later Fiji news. The following items are furnished by the correspondent of the fydney Morning Herald : — BELIG-lOUS TROUBLES AT WALLIS ISLAND. By the Reconnaisance we hear that at Wallis Island there h|d been recently some considerable religious trouble, that island being the seat of the Roman Catholic" Bishop, and the Rome of the South Seas, Protestanism or Wesleyanism being, determinedly opposed. In a fight which "took place' several lives had been lost, arid the Protestant pilot (a halfcaste) had been seized and placed in irons. The Louisa Rider, a schooner built in Fiji, had been seized by the natives, and the" British flag pulled down, but had been afterwards restored to her owner. -It is said that an English man-of-war is y going to Wallis Island to investigate the C disturbances. The wreck of the Hermine, |P*French man-of-war, is still, visible on the \jfeef, and has not been sold. BUBIED ALIVE —BODIES LEFT EXPOSED. The Ra Coast correspondent of Fiji Argus writes:-—" A chief of one of the towns was supposed to be dead of the prevailing epidemic; he was wrapped up in mats, the grave dug, and the body carried to the side, when just as they were about to lower the body into the grave a faint voice said apparently?from inside the mats, ' kskua.' Great was the astonishment of his would-be undertakers when, on tinwinding the mats, they found that he was not. only not dead, but from < that moment he ; rapidly recovered, and now laughs, heartily at the hastiness; of his friends. The measles have by no means finished their deadly work yet and it is to be feared that unless immediate steps are _ taken' to enforce the Burial Act something worse than measles will follow, bodies having been found in many instances on the side of the path, haviag lain there five or six " days. Many are thrown into the mangrove bushes; and many are, I believe, made quietly away with to avoid the trouble of looking after them. I say many,, as. I believe there are strong grounds for believing such to be the case, and one!" instance "I know of in which a man put Ms foot on a woman's stomach and literally pumped out what little life was left. Many, aho, are dying from starvation, as there are no sound persons in some towns to get food for the remainder. -;. ...: - ;: ...; ■ ..,, A HINT TO, THE COLONIES. The Argus says the colony that establishes a; reciprocity treaty with Fiji will secure its trade: " Let Few Zealand, or New South Wales, we care not which, institute a measure by which, on condition of all its local produce being landed here free of duty charge,-all the products of Fiji shall be admitted also free, and Boon will a magnificent trade spring up. is the true and only policy to secure to Fiji an immediate progress —to attract to her capital an enterprise—and the only one to secure to the colony, embracing the interests, of Fiji, a large and increasing trade!"— Auckland Star.