EXTRACTS.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 723, 13 October 1870, Page 3

EXTRACTS.

The irrepressible Captain Hayes, of ' Black Diamond' notoriety, has once more turned up in his capacity as a kidnapper, after various reports of his death by violence, shipwreck, and sundry other causes, received from time to time, A newspaper published at Samoa, says:—" Captain Hayes is charged with having brought away, against their will, eight boys and nine girls, from Manahiki, besides the mother of one of the boys, who begged to be allowed to come with her child, and one man seems to have consented to come. He is also charged with having brought away, under false pretences, nineteen natives of Pakapuka (Danger Island), having pretended to engage them to work in Samoa for six months at the rate of five dollars a month, but at the same time making them put their mark to an agreement to work in Fiji for five years at the rate of two dollars a month. There is also another charge against Captain Hayes of having brought away, unpaid for, 20,000 cocoanuts, and other property —valued by the natives at 500 dollars—from Manahiki, which he offered to convey to "Rakaanga as a favour to the people. The natives of Manahiki were confined below, and not allowed to communicate with the Pukapuka people while the ' Atlantic ' was off the island taking on board the nineteen natives."

Engaging a Mistress est Australia—Biddy : " Well now, I'm glad to hear that you go to church regular, but I'd like to know ave ye have any followers ; an' ye'll excuse me, Mum, do ye dhrink." Lady of the house: " Eeally, these are very strange questions to ask." Biddy: " Och, Mum, I like to be fair and square, an' I like to know the character of a mistress before I engage her." Look on slanderers as direct enemies to civil society; as persons without honor, honesty, and humanity. "Whoever entertains you with the faults of others, designs to serve you in a similar manner.