ROYAL ELOPEMENT AT TAHITI.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 612, 5 June 1876, Page 3

ROYAL ELOPEMENT AT TAHITI.

The Auckland TJccnimj Star says : “ Royal circles in Tahiti have been startled by the announcement that the Princess Mary Ann had eloped with a half-caste named John Salmon. The Princess is heiress to the throne of Raratouga, the chief island of the Horvey group, or, as it is called sometimes, Look’s Archipelago. Salmon is related to the w 11-known Salmon family of Tahiti, the mother of whom claims to be as high a ehieftaiuees as Queen Pomarc, the present ruler in the name of Tahiti. When the Princess Mary Aim lied, her aunt, Queen Makea, of Raratonga, chartered the Auckland schooner Coronet, Captain Rose, to pursue the fugitives. The Co rouet sailed for Morgia, one of the Hervey group, and came up with the schooner Humboldt, Captain Sanford, a gallant Californian, Captain Rose made known bis mission, when Captain Sanford replied that he had the Princess Mary Ana and five maids of honor on board, with the gay Lothario Salmon iu their midst Captain Rose demanded the Princess _ and maids of honor, at the same time exhibiting a perpetual decree of banishment for Salmon from the island of Raratonga. After a confab, Captain Sanford concluded to give up the royal parties, and when the Princess Mary Ann found that she was to be separated for ever from her lover and paramour, she, woman-like, wept a sea of tears. But it was of no avail, and the only consolation offered —usually sufficient to console the natives—was a grand feast on board the Hum t old t. They danced and wept alternately, in true native style. Finally the Coiouet, with her royal freight on board, departed for Karatonga, leaving the forlorn Salmon to pme away on the lonely island of Maugia. But he vows he will yet possess the Princess whom he has lost and mourns.”