Most trades are already represented here. Carpenters are in most request; they earn readily 14s a day of 8 hours. There is no shoemaker yet, nor a paper hanger and painter. “ Snip ” is repre sented by but one individual. "Wash ing is done at 4s a dozen. I have seen a good many ladies on the beach and in hotels; mostly wives of intending settlers, dressed in the height of fashion. The Fiji islanders are of the Papuan race ; they are, physically, inferior to the Maoris, but in industrial pursuits I rank them above them. They make excellent pottery, a coarse kind of cloth from a native leaf, and they print upon it very chaste patterns. White people wear good broad brimmed hats, make by Fiji women, regular Spanish “ sombrerosand I may, in conclusion, mention that any intending emigrant from Auckland to these islands had better leave behind them the articles of dress called waist

coats and neckties, as tbey are only worn by new chums, and even these soon divest themselves of them.
CHARLES DICKENS.
