TONGA NEWS.

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, 9 November 1889, Page 3

TONGA NEWS.

■ Inw oca <»w» flMwparo.nitT.] B'. . rvt. ». | Bbwine to my aWaace from Tifuha Bering tue le*t three month*. vi4tia* ■a MMl'.«r Maude ••» IIIU gm*ip. 1 AM «U hot l<«t titui-h of matter* ■peel aad social, in »n\ litel«» K : ■aft of Tonga u my lank I monti<m< <1 tiid mo»t ■hMMbw doco.-.w. n{ f.iit.. n », th* f "Grown Prim**. Yon haw lour ainne heard that, a* .uiiiii hI«h1, ho died. aad wa* buried At Yavau. ; linen that tlmt Death indeed ha' iieeu very himr, with tIM» King* fan.ijv. About the tu*» of the Prion*'* .loath one of hi* atafen, Falohaka, departed »>i* life* in Tonga, and a few weak'* Uter Kmg George lout Charlotte, hi* Uucon. Rhe had nut a almrt illuoaa. ami although iHlnp in yoar* hw da th waa hardly looked bar al the t iine. Ahoat a month einee the Governor of Tlnhaii l»«t hi* wife. Puaibala, one of the Ring'* granddaughter*, ao that it now *onm* ahoat that there an* very few of the King'* family left. There ara hut tno member* of it remaining, I Udieve, in tha firat and aoeond generation*-- on* daughter Charlotte, » lady widl -,<ivnncedh your*, At pre«ent nn exile in Fiji on iu-uum.t <>t !»i.r .oliirion. I.eiun one of th<uw wh.i remained i.uthiiil to the W«*loyan Chinch I'.minij ;ii«' p< - .-- aeciitiour, .md Caroline, tho ln« of , King George'* granddaughter*. t A ana of Faaihabi'a, ther«foro great- ( greedaon of TultouV hj U<i ni (vd!*g«. K noma Ifteen or eixteoii yaara of age, ■ aaieaaeda to, Taif.me's poritton. Tha ■ Qajnaa waa buried with mwTi pomp at W Nukualofa, aad not nt TTiha. the I Xing'* family tiloka. Fuaihala waa fafcaa to Uiha. ami tho enatomar.v month'a funeral eeremnnioa cam* to an aad la*tThur*d»y King Georg* •timd* thiae rtida ahoaka well, although he waa *>me. what shaken at the >inex|'.e<-ted d-vrh ofhiaQaaon. Rrill. for a ii«u»ir<nnviin ha ia a mJrerle, aad ntar li vo for yenr* It waa at tha i.land of Ufuka. wkonca X write, that the whaler Port-an-Priaea waa aeised and mo*t of the araw elaughtered in tha .mar : Oo Kins George Tuhon. aa a .diild. waa pktyiag ia tho hold of that veaael. ao tlmt I* ia probable t\at he now numliam ataaty yaara all add. It waa how alao tlmt Tu>>ou won lii» late Qn«>on hv fo«ca of mtin. lakinir hor from tha Tiii'onaru after u moat daaporata haith- at V>«lata, i>oiuo tiuip after whieh ha Imwaiug " 1->'h. ' having twoQucana. IT-- aapuntail from Caro. liae, and waa mnrri-n] to Charlotte. We have had imuwlv any rain h«re . for month*, and the nlantation* an 1 their crop* ahow pNinly tha aff.vf* of th<* dmueht. T.iat Biinde*. wi'h the wind north. »•■ hud |»r«»nif*<* of hj h«nrv downfall, '"it n» 'ha 'vind ihopp«*d round cninklv itiwc mor«> to the aoiitli, handed in a promise omy. Wa have hwl apvenil Terr hnavy ahorkaof «inli(|ii.ike lately—two rarv aerere oner on th* ni«ht of the 2ft* hj ina». aad one nirain on the 27th. Tha whalinir aauaiMi i* now at an en 1. aad oar entnr|>ri«in(j fullow-townMit au Mr. Middlami**. hna lianllr )xh-h a* awwa—fnl aa ha doaenras, four ll*h only hating haoa ancurod. mid tlu-aa wore not of tha hirirnat, proilarinir perliHna ■istean or amronteca tona of nil. Tin a pitT that there are not a few " right" whalaa in tlia o aaia, with their long whale'»ona-«i'totad at nraaant et , s*QOO u a tonLr-'o rewaH •otlwpriae. and euarag*. The £garia waa Utely At Namtiku. aoma forty milea from hero aad left a rtor'ion of har iraw and a few ofßaera to aateay the i4aad, and tlia eaa round ahrntt. Mm than aallad bw Tonga, hat aill abortly. if aha baa M doao a» already, nmeead to Sydney to meat tha freali raw aaat out from homo.