Tongan Parliament To
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Meet.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Nukualofa, June 16.
PARLIAMENT is to meet again within the next few weeks, and the “beach” is, as is usual before every meeting of the Assembly, full of rumours.
The Ministers of the Crown have rig idly prepared the estimates in the secret precincts of their Council Cham ber, and everybody naturally feels hurt because, once outside that Cham ber, those Ministers will talk about any thing but the estimates.
The death occurred recently of Pilato Ariki, the aged King of Pukapuka, one of the Northern Cook Islands. He suc ceeded to the kingship over 75 years ago.