WALLIS' ISLAND.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 273, 8 March 1877, Page 3

WALLIS' ISLAND.

i How .many of out readers*, we wonder I (says 'the Auckland K<-,-y.hu;t .v'-t) have heard of Fvea wV.Vti-i Island • Th» re J is no mistaking where thi- i*. forahoiitn I year »'„'« the French man- I'-wa:- L"Hermit ! was wrecked riijht at the intiv.'.iee, and there she stilt tit* high ami dry. Wallis Island is one of the most fertile in the fiieiue. It ha* a rich voleanic soil, and rthuftfub with eoeoarmt "rovts and other tinvher. The c>e»anuH yield lanre <|iianI titira of «t>jira, whieh i» exported extensively. Theiv ta a nnnvro-.w ir»ttve population, who ov» jvil-trtam- • t*» a Ouecti who rexidea in the interior, hut. in the fame way a;; though nominally ntled hy Kin*; u r;i reality under f'e <>»uf,rd of the K<v. Mr. JJaker and the Westeyaii*. "> VvV.Mirf Island t,-; reallv e;ov-.-rned hy a French li.shop. wtio hai/hjen resident »n the island for the ta.-iS ■!'-' .ward. T*.t-t patriarch in 74 old." and w regarded hy tin; wtiol-: t>ody of the popnl.itto'i as their father. Tin-" vi-ii. ntbU- t>M r.ai-i : '* Wi'.tii I e:ime here tht?;-j jeop'c wvre alt ea:>.r,iii.J.i ; now t'.ey are all my eliilon n." Tii<: l.'is'.or. has w..rkrn- wit i him rlitv." at.-o two ntu:-i. In diUVsvnt p;>rts of tin: island aft; no tl.: n three cat'iedralst, nil liuilt of a kind of oeor.i st»ne. and not on" of t!nm It,; in .-..;:•.* tl:an I'it-.street ei.ip.r. ami all v.it'i nineh more pt\:t--ii-s[..u to rue' ii'ce-' itt'.U I; aufy. Taey are princepr'iy to.thie in s;t; le. with r;e s j« rtieees- LiaiviLsnntely de l . orui't'd with s!:e!".-*. Th.i'He pri'. :-ts m.i-intatrt ;:.Uuo>t <■ uit'vd fver t'te pe"pie, t !-»ri j;U t'ivy t.avw j ~,, fore.; 'levorvl r-at rn ; m->f.l p Tjaaaon. I'l'h.y levy" li.i.h': t-.xr-.t i;t ttu- way .-f ! e>-pi;', and tU lin.pipits aiv liy'-roiisfy pnr.Uae 1.