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Wellington Independent, Volume XVII, Issue 1488, 11 January 1861, Page 4

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The following extract from a letter from Fiji, received by a gentleman io Sydney, has been handed to us Sydney Morning Herald, for publication :— •• The " Jeanie Dove" is on the point of sailing, and I snatch up my pen to beg you will warn intending etnigaauts hither that to come without means is folly. We have had lately a very considerable addition to our white population from New Zealand and from Australia, consisting chiefly of mechanics — men, I am sorry to say, with no money. What has induced them to thrust themselves amongst a cannibal race in so reckless a mauner I cannot oonceive. Living even in the rough style that we pioneers do, is as expensive as in the colonies. Employment for laborers aud mechanics there is none. Cash is an article that is positively unknown amongst us; we by aud sell by barter. The newcomers have been forced to thrust themselves upon the old residents for food and shelter; and although the hospitality of the old Fiji hands is notoriously almost unbounded, yet there is a limit at which the most liberal will halt. We require men with hard hands and enegetic minds, backed by a few hundred pounds. To such Fiji offers every prospeot of future independence. This group is no refuge for the destitute.