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And Some History
VHERE can be few spectacles in the world more impressive than the opening of the Suva Yacht ub on a fine cool day in April.
Scores of yachts and motor-boats reer over the sparkling blue and gen waters of the lagoon; the ether-ship of the day, HMS Viti, izzling the ancient wharf, supplies rough her lines of flags just the jht notes of exotic colour; and in e background is the lovely little and of Nukulau, its white sands tted with bathers, and the green rf under its coconuts accommo ting dozens of parties of lazy mickers.
There is history there. This was e island where Mr. Williams, lited States first consul in Fiji, Dk up his august residence nearly century ago. Undisciplined Fijians 1 not much like the Europeans’ trusion, so they burned down his use, and treated the family aghly. The outraged Americans ereupon insisted that King Cako u should pay damage amounting as it not?) to £9,000, and Cako u, in his embarrassment, begged •itain to take over the kingdom id pay the bill.
Out of that incident, eventually, me Cession and the Crown Colony Fiji. But I searched Nukulau in in for even a stone to show where e Consul’s house once stood.
All now is westernised. Ratu Iward Cakobau, great-grandson of e old King, and much honoured the Colony, lounged there in a ck-chair, and discussed the )lony’s affairs in a well-known liversity accent with the Colony’s )p Brass. And along the sparkling .th of green water, between the chts and the shore, there bobbed line of beer bottles, cast overboard all their emptiness—but still un
hamed.
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Patunga Tupou Tare, of Raro nga, Cook Is., about 50, went fish g in his canoe during the night March 27. He was accompanied r another man in another canoe, 10 remained fishing near Black ick, while Tare left him and went wards Arorangi, a village some iles further down the coast. The Rowing day the police found his ,noe smashed to pieces inside the ef at Arorangi. Tare’s body was covered at sea some distance from ie reef. It was stated at the in lest that Tare was in the habit of eeping while out fishing and his ;ath is believed to be accidental.
Former pupils at schools in barters Towers, Qld., held a re lion in Lae, NG, recently. A dinner > the Hotel Cecil was followed by dance in the adjoining hall.