3 50 and cleaned for two and one- 
half cents, it is not strange. Suva 
is quite up-to-date, having a repeat- 
‘jng station of the commercial cable 
between England and Australia, a 
Carnegie library, which has, however, 
“a very poor assortment of books, fine 
een offices and a Masonic 
ce 
23 the natives Pgebves as much as 
possible. “In this way only,” he said, 
“could such splendid discipline be 
maintained, especially in the more re. 
_ mote villages. It is the young Fiji- 
-an’s highest ambition to hold a gov- 
‘ernment office. The communal sys- 
~ tem, which is in vogue there, is death 
_ to initiative as the common sharing 
_ of everything, including food, clothes 
-and even dwelling houses gives no 
incentive for work. ‘The native 
chief of each village is greatly re- 
_ spected and obeyed in everything ard 
_if a young man goes away for a year 
or two years to work, the chief is 
quite likely to ask for a part or even 
the whole of his money for the coni- 
mon good when he returns and the 
money mux{ be handed over.” 
_ Mr. Libby attended the church ser- 
vices at Suva at the Methodist 
church, which is the leading denom- 
‘ination there with but a sprinkling 
of Roman Catholics, and spoke very 
highly of the way they were carried 
out. “The music was excellent and 
the speaker, a Fijian woman mission- 
ary just returned from the Solomon 
‘Islands, was very interesting. It 
“would be impossible to get any work 
done in Suva on Sunday, as the 1 
“tives have thoroughly learned the 
lesson of resting on the seventh day 
if not the one of working on the 
other six.” 
_ The speaker gave a most interest- 
ing resume of the career of King 
UThakombau, one of the “characters” 
of the island. “He committed his 
_ first murder at the age of eight years, 
_having been urged to it by his fath- 
-er’s retainers. Upon his father’s 
death, Thakombau strangled the for- 
mer’s five wives that they might fol- 
low his father’s spirit into the Be- 
yond. Upon his return from a visit 
abroad he brought with him the 
“measles, which, it is estimated, killed 
about 30,000 st the natives at that 
time. Thakombau became a Chris- 
tian in 1854, but it was two years 
after that he was finally accept- 
ed by the church. In 1874, he was 
instrumental in ceding the island to 
England and as a testimony of his 
surrender sent his war club to Tueen 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
15 
BUSINESS IN JANUARY 
is naturally rather quiet 
This gives us time to attend to WATCH, CLOCK and 
JEWELRY REPAIRING 
If you have a watch that is not giving satisfaction let us put it in order 
and you will be perfectly satisfied 
F. S. Thompson, seweier 
164 Main Street, Gloucester 
Victoria, who had it placed in the 
British Museum. He died in 1883.” 
From Levuka, Mr. Libby and his 
sister left the party and proceeded to 
Lovoni, accompanied only by a native 
guide. The chief of the village came 
to meet them swinging a giant butch- 
er knife, which proved to be formid- 
able only in looks for the chief was 
the cousin of the guild and very kind- 
ly disposed, for he at once took them 
to the guests’ hut, who he very 
hospitably furnished with native 
delicacies. Mr. Libby admitted 
that they relished some sandwiches, 
which they had brought much more, 
however, so the chief finished up 
what they had left and ate some of 
the sandwiches. The remote little 
village was very interesting as a 
study, but not for a longer visit as 
conditions were almost too primitive. 
One of Mr, Libby’s most interest- 
ing points was his visit to Samoa, 
where Robert. Louis Stevenson made 
his home for so many years. At the 
beginning of the road leading to the 
estate is a signboard erected by some 
native chieftains, whom Stevenson 
had. raised money to feed when they 
were imprisoned, ‘The road, too was 
built by these same chieftains and 
they called it “The Road of The 
Loving ‘'Hearts,” in memory of his 
kindness to them and the signboard 
is erected to Tusitala, as the natives 
called him, which means ‘“‘the teller 
of tales.” Stevenson chose to be 
buried at Samoa and during the night 
following his death hosts of natives 
built a road to the top of the hill’ 
and the next day carried the 
writer’s body up to its grave over- 
looking the cocoanut trees and blue 
waters of his adopted land 
MAGNOLIA 
Rev. Charles A. Hatch occupied the 
pulpit at the Village church last Sun- 
day morning in exchange with Dr. 
Eaton, who went to Manchester. Mr. 
Hatch was a very pleasing speaker, 
brief and to the point, 
Sunday being the first Sunday in 
the month, Communion will follow 
the morning service at the Village 
church. 
Miss Charlotte C. Huskie of Bos- 
ton was the guest of Mrs. J. R. 
Crispin on Wednesday and attended 
the ball of the Commonwealth club 
in Gloucester with Mrs. Helen C. Ab- 
bott and Gilbert Crispin. 
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