TAHITI.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 30, 15 January 1864, Page 6 (Supplement)

TAHITI.

(From the Sydney Horning Herald) We are in receipt of a file of the Messagcr de Tahiti from the 4th of July to the 24th of October last. A robbery of a sum of 8000 francs was committed on the 7th of July last, in the house of Mr James Clark, of Papeiti — the person robbed being Mr Thomas Gervasoni, ex-captain of the Chilian ship Conception, not long be fore wrecked off" the coast of Tuhana, in the Windward Islands. A search was made on board the Chilian ship Matthias Sdlvinius by M. Laplace, the commissary of police. It led to the discovery of the sum of money which had been stolen. It was found concealed in the cabin of a passenger, Wilheim Miller, who was arrested by the authorities, tried on the charge, and condemned to five years' imprisonment, and to restore the sum stolen. On the 13th of May last sixteen natives of the Marquesas, of the same class as those who had been carried off by the Empress and landed at ITuacho, made their way to Call to, where they were joined, a few days afterwards, by seven of their countrymen, who had reached the shore by swimming. The unfortunate creatures were, by the care of the French Charge d 'Affaires, at Lima, furnished with rations on board the Galathee. On the sth of June, persons were sent in search of twelve other persons of this class, who weie wandering about in the open country. Dec liter, the captain of the Empresa, was arrested towards the end of May. It is said that Aguire, the ex-captain of the Cora, has arrived at Callao, and that he has been followed there by the ship's cook. It is rumored at Peru that it is purposed to send home the kidnapped islanders in a ship ot war. Prizes were, on the 10th and llth of August, delivered to the scholars and school children of the educational establishments of the Sisters of St. Joseph de Clussy. The fete day of the Emperor Napoleon 111. (the 15th August) was celebrated at Papieti with the usual rejoicings. The Bishop of Cambysopolis, exercising the function of chief of the Roman Catholic mission at the Marquesas, arrived at the Taihobae settlement, on the llth August, and restored to tbeir families five of the Marquesan Islanders who had been carried off by the Empresa. The French settlement I of Taiohae is reported to be in a state of profound tranquillity. Her Britannic Majesty'sscrewsteamer Tribune, 300 tons burthen and twentythree guns, arrived at Papieta on the 29th August last, from Callao. Her captain is Lord Guih'ord. The Diamant, a French ship, commanded by M. E. Labris, left Callao for the Marquesas on the 20lh of August, with twenty-nine Polynesians on board. Of this number, fourteen died of the small-pox during the i voyage. Five more died at Nakahwa, i after the arrival of the vessel. None J of the crew died of the complaint. The Diamant, on her arrival at T ahiti, was placed in quarantine.