OBJECTING TO FRENCH PROTECTION.
By the Taapo, which has arrived at Auckland from the Islands, news was received yesterday that the trouble between the French authorities and the natives of Rariatea was still continuing. Receutly the islanders erected a flagstaff and hoisted the British flag, stating that they still adhered to their resolve uot to como under the French protectorate. A French man-of-war took the British Consul from Ripsete to Rariatea to counsel and advise the natives that they could not fly the British flag nor could they receive any protection from the British. The natives, however, continued firm, saying lhab they looked upon Queen Victoria as their mother. The end or the matter wae that the flagstaff was shot down by the guas of the warship, but; the natives, nothing daunted, soon had another flagstaff erected, an 1 when the IVnpo left the island them were three ab&tid from which the British flag wae displayed. The French authorities are now keeping a etrict surveillance over the island and are endeavouring to subjugate the natives by a starvation process.
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9433, 3 June 1896, Page 5
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