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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 194, 11 September 1888, Page 3

A Liverpool woman did a smart piece of roguery lately. She moved about mysteriously among the ladies, giving it out as a secret that she represented a Society journal, and wanted to give a report of the dresses worn. She was of course given every possible facility. Liter on it was discovered that she had duped the ladies, and that her object was theft, in which she was exceedingly successful. The Fiji Times of 29th August says the now notorious dispute which exists between Messrs M’Arthur and Co. and Cornwall, Manaema, and others has lately assumed a new phase. It will be remembered that litigation has been proceeding since 1871, ana that it culminated recently in the refusal of the Supreme Court to vary the judgment given in an action tried before it in 1886, wherein the rights of the parties were in issue and decided upon. News has now come to hand to the effect that the representative of Manaema had entered on the land, the sale of which to M’Arthur and Co., through some voidable process, has been declared of no effect, The entry was effected peaceably, but shortly afterwards those who had thus taken possession were forcibly ejected by an armed body of some 50 or 60 mon, and on the 3rd of August informations were laid against Messrs Fletcher, Danvers, Cotherell, and Collins in connection with the matter, and the case was to be heard on the 14th. [This was the case in connection with which Mr Rees was engaged to go to the Islands for some time back.]