In Fiji.

Bumper Sugar Season

From a Special Correspondent.

Ba, Fiji. Sept. 4.

Things around this side of the Island are very quiet. The two sugar mills are this season crushing up to six o’clock on Saturday even ings, in order to cope with the surplus cane.

Both are still breaking long-standing records— the Rarawai Mill averaging 10,000 tons of cane weekly and Lautoka 13,000. Last season two sugar trains were sent daily from Rarawai to Lautoka—this season three are required.

An Indian was murdered down at Mami (Nadi) last month, but very few details have come to hand. The victim’s body was found four days after the deed, and was partly buried.

Mr. Munisami Mudaliar was elected (unop posed) as the honourable member for the Northern and Western Divisions, Indian section. We hope that this time the Indian members will accomplish more than their predecessors, who resigned on account of not being able to get the common roll for the Indian community.

Improved Mail Service.

The new mail contract seems to be giving a lot of satisfaction by keeping to the time table. Every Sunday and Thursday the lorry leaves Lautoka for Ellington with outward mails, and returns the same evenings with mail.

An Indian-owned launch runs regularly from Suva to Ellington in order to connect with the lorry and now we have two mails every week from Suva. Before the contract, mails some times took ten days from Suva to Ba.

Social And Sporting.

On July 30 the Ba dancing season was opened by a very successful dance in aid of the Namo san Tennis Club. A large number of visitors came from Lautoka, Nadi and Nadarivater.

The native football season ended a few weeks ago. The cup given by Mr. Upton was won by the Rarawai team, with Medical a close second.

Some very good games were played during the competition, but some of the natives have yet to learn how to control their tempers. Taken all round, a great improvement was noticed between the first and last games and the next season ought to prove a success.

We are quite proud of the bowling team that represented us at the carnival in Suva last month, for they won the Governor’s Cup. Our Mr Wilson won the much coveted Pineapple Cup and is the hero of the Carnival, which has been aptly termed —Wilson’s Carnival.