1865: Tongan, Joeli Bulu came to Fiji with James Calvert; Bulu was later, “ chaplain to Cakobau”

1865: “Joeli Bulu came to Fiji with Calvert. He was with John Hunt at Rewa, and later on Viwa at the time of the revival and the conversion of VaraII. He spent eight years on the small island of Ono in Lau where he was ordained and put in charge. ` I used to think [...]

1868: three-way fight for control of Fiji by Britain, America, and Australia; Thakombau crowned king, Melbourne-based Polynesian Company offers to pay Cakobau’s debt; but on 10th October, 1874, a deed of cession to Britain, was executed at Levuka

Trollope, Anthony reported in 1875 the Sir Hercules Robinson view of Fijian affairs which lead up to the signing of the deed. It appeared a three-way fight for control of Fiji by Britain, America, and Australia. A group of 10,000 Melbourne investors formed the Polynesian Company, and offered to pay Cakobau’s debt in exchange [...]

1865: exports from Fiji; 60,000 oranges, 4000 lemons, assorted coconuts, a shipment of pigs

“Mr Saunders’s life of Bully Hayes is again our chief source of information for the next phase of that crooked mariner’s wanderings. After the affair of Helen Murray, Bully crossed Cook Strait to Wellington. “Here, on 1st February 1865, the smooth-talking sailor was registered as the [...]