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Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 46, 21 January 1843, Page 184

Massacre of the French at the Marquesas. — The schooner Sarah Ann, which arrived yesterday from Tahiti, brings the melancholy intelligence of the massacre of the recently-appointed French Governor of the Marquesas, together with his attendants. It will be recollected that France lately determined to colonise this group of islands, and it appears that an expedition with all the paraphernalia of a Government had recently., arrived there for that purpose. The Governor Bfr the intended colony, accompanied by his attendants and a body guard of fourteen men, went on shore to pay an official visit to the native King of the Island of Necahevar, one of the group. While in the act of returning to the ship, the natives, who had assembled in a numerous body, suddenly set upon the Governor, and inhumanly butchered him with all his attendants. About j two hundred mariners were landed afterwards, but could make nothing of the natives ; they are all in the mountains, and the French will have some trouble to overcome them. — Sydney Observer. ' Colonial Tobacco. — An American gentleman named Waltball, has recently commenced manufacturing tobacco at Maitland, and the samples he has produced and sent to Sydney are so superior, that even the best judges have taken them to be American. — Sydney Herald.