Fiji Libel Action Settled
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From Our Own Correspondent
Suva, Aug. 1.
THE proposed action for libel against the Chief Justice has been settled. It is reported that the terms of settlement provide for the withdrawal of the ban upon the employment as interpreters, by local solicitors, of certain Indian clerks, and that a circular rescinding previous instructions has been issued by the Regis trar of the Supreme Court. It is said, also, that a sum, by way of compensa tion, has been agreed to be paid.
Rev. R. Lister Turner, of the London Missionary Society, at Delena, Papua, returned to Port Moresby by the July Macdhui. Mr. Turner, who is a non offlcial member of the Papua Legislative Council, had been on furlough in Eng land with his wife.