1863: Consul W. T. Pritchard, frames Fiji code of laws, but was unjustly accused and removed as Fiji administrator

Berthold Seemann in a foreword to  W. T. Pritchard’s, Polynesian Reminiscences wrote “ My personal acquaintance with the author (IW. T. Pritchard) dates from the time when I was attached to the Government mission to the Viti or Fiji Islands, when I was introduced to him by a letter from Lord Russell.
An able administrator: During my stay in those islands, I had ample opportunities of observing the admirable tact, zeal, and industry displayed by Mr. Pritchard in his official capacity ; how he used to exert himself all day long in behalf of the daily increasing number of white settlers, and of the numerous natives who claimed his interference or appealed to his love of justice ; and how he used to sit up all night, writing dispatches or translating documents, so that no impediment should take place in the next day’s proceedings.
Formed code of laws: He was the first who framed a code of laws for a lawless group of two hundred islands; and these laws were so admirably adapted to the primitive state of society then existing in Fiji, that every man of sense willingly submitted to them. A copy of his code may be seen in the library of the British Museum.
No one can read the following pages without feeling that he was the .’Right man in the right place” Pritchard was certainly the right man in the right place. It is, therefore, melancholy to add that all his tact, zeal, and industry were unavailing ; that a combination was formed against him, and that this combination was powerful enough, and lasted long enough, to effect his dismissal from the public service.
Defense: It is satisfactory to the author’s friends, that the moment he was informed of this, he fastened to London to defend himself; but his letters, begging for a fair investigation of his official conduct, were un heeded ;and after wasting more than a year in London, and spending a considerable sum of money, he was reluctantly compelled to acknowledge that no justice was to be had for him through the channel by which he sought it. …in the following pages : there is hardly an allusion to it, and it is only dire necessity which prompts me to mention the subject at all” .
Polynesian Reminiscences; Ob, Life In The South Pacific Islands. By W. T. Pritchard, F.R.G.S., F.A.S.L., F Ormerl
Y H.M. Consul At Samoa Axj) Fiji. PrkfacE By I) Berthold Seemann  (R. Seemann).   London : Chapman And Hall, 1932, Piccadilly.   J. B. Taylor And Co.  Editors note: this book appears written by more than one person. One style, in the first person, and care and discretion; other parts in a dramatised third person with a different culture and vocabulary, with the tone of populised ‘missionary press”.  These parts were perhaps the parts compiled by editor, Seeman., who says in the foreword ‘Indeed, the abundance of the materials was most embarrassing ; and the ungrateful task of selecting the best stories and the most curious information has in a great measure, especially since the author’s departure for Mexico, fallen to my task as Editor. I may add, that I have endeavoured to acquit myself to the best of my judgment, and that I, not the author, must be held responsible for whatever deficiencies may be observed in the following pages”.