VISIT OF THE STEAMSHIP NEVADA TO, PAGA PAGA ISLAND.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1199, 16 December 1871, Page 2

VISIT OF THE STEAMSHIP NEVADA TO, PAGA PAGA ISLAND.

4N INTERESTING SCENE. [southern cross,] The U.S., N.Z., anxl A. mail steamship, Nevady left Honolulu \yith 9.7 passengers, 215 bag*, mails, a,nd 1,200 packages freight for New Zealand and Ausjtralia, on November 20, at 11 p.m., connecting at Honolulu with company's steamer Moses Taylor, whjch left San. Francisco with 171 passengers and a large amount of freight, on the 9th November. On the 31st of November, at 2.30 p.m., arriving off the harbor of Paga Paga, in the Island of Tutuilao, of the Navigator Gioup, the. ship was stopped, when Mr William H. Webb, accompanied by two passengers (mail agent, Mr Gray, and Captain Edwards, of Sydney), proceeded in the ship's boat in charge of the Ist officer, Mr Davies, to the harbor of Paga Paga, and landed at the chief's house, who received them in a very cordial and welcome manner, expressing an earnest wish that Mr Webb might soon order his steamers to enter the commodious and remarkably fine accessible harbor, so well situated for a coaling station. At 630 p.m., Mr Webb returning, resumed our course toward Auckland. Owing to a, bad quality of coal got at Honolulu, and very strong head winds the latter part of fche voyage, we have made slow progress. While lying oil' the Poland of Tutuilao, 30 or 40 natives male and female, clad in the ancient fig leaf cos tume, contributed greatly to our amusement by their appearing cm. our decks,. Among them a chief, a and wellmade fellow, feeling the effects of Cupid's arrow, as his eye rested on a. young and pleasing lady, travelling to. Auckland, immediately proposed matrimony, offering by way of inducement large tracts of land and some silver, all of which was respectively declined, the rejected suitor retiring as gracefully as the circumstances would admit, humming apparently the air of " Her bright smile haunts me still." The contrast of refined civilization with barbarism side-by-ude on the deck presented a ludicrous novel, and interesting scene, starting a topic of conversation, causing a hearty laugh, and creating a fund of amusement not easily forgotten.