THE MARQUIS DE RAY’S COLONIZING EXPEDITION.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 4, Issue 168, 16 October 1880, Page 2

THE MARQUIS DE RAY’S COLONIZING EXPEDITION.

| The i’aiiiii'f' oi the C>K*i;s»lcnin«£ivrG i petition u> found n colony .m i.*»r isluuc of Now Ire Sami, does not appear to hav: Too .second batch of colonists, it may U remembered, were sent out in the stnmei Genii, under the Hat; of the R\ > t !io oi Liberia. The steamer e■. Singnpuisj with four feet, of water in her hold and ;it illicit h-.ve horn pp .sc I th:vt. whoa i the fate of the Cliaiidei nagoiv'x putty l-e---oame known, the expedition would hove i been abandoned. 'I nis, however, is not the case, as wu learn tium Mr. Schuler, j a gentleman wlioarrivjd hy the Nur.isanhy i from Singapore, that tho arrangements for founding a colony mi New Ireland 1 cuniinuo in full siviag. The news of the break up, and sad fate of the first eoio- ; nixing party, an published in this journal, | was reprinted in iho Singapore Times, and at tirst created consternation among ! the Genii passengers and crew. -■ Captain | Robavdy, of the tii-nlls, however, comI nmnicated hy cable with the Marquis, j and received a reassuring reply that every- | thing was correct, and be was to push on 1 with the expedition. Tho captain of the | Genii, who is said to he a French gentle- ; man of considerable intlneneo, assembled ids party on hoard, and after addressing 1 them for some three hours, during which j he explained away the .statements made in Sydney, and made capital out of that ; portion which designated Ills party pirates. | 'flic immigrants, eompi Ling Germans, | Frenchmen, and Spaniards, hi the ' number of sixty, agreed to go in the vessel, so also did the seamen, ' but the engineers refused to turn to. i and their places were to lie tilled hy Chinese engineers. On the oecassion of I receiving tin- encouraging cable from tho 1 Marquis, the Genii was gaily draped with flags, and a great enthusiasm prevailed on board. .Captain Rohardy was advised that the steamer India, witn from 700 to duu colonists for Purl lireton, was leaving iJareelona under the Italian Hag. 1 Iho Genii while at Signapore was placed in the hands of Messrs. Drummond, Gaggin,and Co., ship chandlers, t-.. ■b; put in good seagoing 'order. .Sh 1 was placed in Peterson and .Simon’sdock, tho roughly re pa i: ed, coaled, and provi-iom-d, and would be ready to resume her voyage towards the end of July. She is to remain a month at Port Ih etmi.tlion leave for Sydney for provisions, and one of the promoters of the expedition will meet tlie vessel here, and proceed to the new colony in her. The Genii still (lies the I Liberian Hag. The captain applied to 'lie American Consul to bo allowed to hoist tile stars and stripes, but the application was refused. The Genii curries tbe inilriulleuso guns, nnd the passengers arc mostly armed ; but our in formant is confident that tho party have no unlaw-1 fill intentions- -in tact, that they are! bona-dd- i-oloni ;!-*. We rr.av shortly expect to bear of ltb the Gem! and in-d-i at il-ir destination —-SHuey Mail.