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each were sent, as also two bottles of the finest cocoa-nut oil. 

 The foregoing facts Avill show what, even in its infantile state, 

 the colony of Fiji can export. But everything depends on the 

 introduction of capital, with the right sort of men. What 

 Fiji requires is, in fact, an aristocracy of planters, who will 

 add to a very natural desire to create a competence, a keen 

 sense of responsibility to all around, whether white or coloured. 

 The day is past when the British adventurer could claim, 

 because he is an adventurer, a sympathy often denied to his 

 more suffering compatriots at home. Even now, people must 

 go out to Fiji as pioneers, and prepare to ' rough it ;' but, in 

 fairness, it must be added that the 'roughing it' of 1882 is a 

 totally different thing from what it was in 1871. A man 

 must be of a peculiarly disagreeable and discontented nature 

 who would not soon reconcile himself to the very few draw- 

 backs of Fiji. As a ' new chum ' he can learn a great deal, but 

 as a ' new chum ' he will have to be content to be taught 

 Fiji is not like the Australasian colonies, it is the exact, 

 counterpart of the West Indies and the Mauritius. 



The sort of men who can turn their hand to anything, who 

 are ' roughs ' one day, gentlemen the other, are not required 

 in our new Crown colony. The irrepressible working man is 

 always more or less to be congratulated especially at the 

 approach of a general election; but I should do myself no 

 credit by counselling his immediate emigration to Fiji ; as a 

 general rule he is not wanted, and, unless I am very much 

 mistaken, is not likely to be wanted. For the surplus popu- 

 lation of Britain's working class the dependencies of the 

 empire that most assimilate in climate to that of the mother 

 country (like those of Australasia and South Africa and 

 Canada) are the natural goals ; but Fiji, with all its wealth, 

 offers no such field. Then, again, there is another class which 



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