RAROTONGA NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 141, 16 June 1893, Page 3

RAROTONGA NEWS.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

•The mission ship John Williams ia hereshe takes tan native teacher?, chiefly to .to Guinea. They were trained ad the Mission School here. There is great tribulation among their friends. The men themselves are fine young fellows, and a "edit to the mission. Two of them are •torn Rorntu, an island under French proAction, but always in the past; and still connected more closely with 'Rarotonya "■a with Tahiti. J-oeman Taati, for whoso extradition the ench Government applied, has been sent , Pty the Atui people, on the Government "WB Bonding the echooner for him a second wne. p arua (Aviki), however, refused to ""jo. and it has been decided that she nail pay the expenses of the schooner— R.? wO—and nob be recognised by the ,m'f h Resident as an Ariki till she does ~' *"c old lady is obstinate, 1 know, and "° "kely to cave in in a hurry, but this "'recognising her as an Ariki is sure to °nDK her and her party to terms at last. aniu- 1'was brouf-'ht before Judge Tepon, "a his case fully investigated, The Jiidj/e «a made his report to Mukoo, and Taati is J?Soin the first vessel to Tahiti and take °«trial for foryery. Some of tho white j* are bitterly opposing this. They say c era '' "0 treaty between France and the V«ols Islands, but Mr Mobs says it cannot . ""erutcd that islands so near to Tahiti, jj° a ""der protection of England, should p tnade a receptacle ior fugitives from , tonch justice. Treaty or no treaty, it ff"ng been proved by full ovidonce that :, . ' £ case onjrt to go to trial, ho must face ' n,.Tahiti. The nativea naturally symmen kWitbTaatL many white ■, ye been here and gone away in nni * hynob now a Maori? iJr Moss BndT "^ thafc they wero not ftPPlied for' Kavw-' 8' Quite possibly the accused the ■ dt)en wnen tho time comes, for « "e. lSn°gaol here ; but if Makea keeps thhli!\ doin? as Mr Mosa advises, and 1 WYeV c wilI« none of tho nativea will venu""« to hide him. i ODK(