§ ADMIRAL ERSKINEasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If the statement published in a morning paper, that fighting with loss of life had taken place in the Fiji Islands between the mountain tribes and labourers imported from other islands by white settlers is correct; and, if it is true that the number of white settlers in the Fiji Islands amount to about 3,000 persons, of whom a large proportion are British subjects; and, if so, if it is the intention of Her Majesty's Government to take any steps to prevent the disorders likely to follow the settlement among an uncivilized people of so large a body of Her Majesty's subjects, who are themselves under no restaint of Law?
§ VISCOUNT ENFIELDNo Reports, Sir, have been received at the Foreign Office in confirmation of the statements that have appeared in the newspapers respecting the alleged fighting and loss of life in the Fiji Islands between the mountain tribes and the labourers imported by white settlers. There are no means of ascertaining the exact number of British subjects in the Fiji Islands; but there are, no doubt, a very considerable number of British subjects settled there, and the number is daily increasing; and Her Majesty's Government have recently prepared an Order in Council with the intention of giving Her Majesty's Consul magisterial powers to enable him to deal with British subjects offending against the laws.