LATER NEWS FROM TAHITI. DEPARTURE OF BISHOP POMPALLIER.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3402, 11 June 1868, Page 3

LATER NEWS FROM TAHITI. DEPARTURE OF BISHOP POMPALLIER.

The schooner 'Neva,' which armed from Tahiti yesterday, brings some items of news, which may be found of interest to our readeri. '; We learn that Bishop Pompallier, accompanied by his nieoe, leffc in the French transport ' Ghevert,' Captain D'Estieone, on the 14th of May,' for Callao. The.fmperial Commissioner and the chief officers of the French Government, escorted his Lordship to the vessel, followed by almost the entiije j population of Papeete and |fche surrounding' district, and the military,,, firing » salute of twbnty-one guns, with the customary flourish of trumpets. The procession is said to have been exceedingly grand, and ; thq nniversal attendoa and respect evinced towards his Lordship during ,his stay at Tahiti created in him great reluctance in Tnddiug good-bye to the island. , - Queen Emma) her husband (George, romare), and < family, after an absence of nearly two years at Ow,yhee, returned to, Tahiti on, the 6th (of May. When the vessel came alongside the Government pier a salute of giws was fired > the military formed a line on each side of the pier, and the! natives assembled,in thousands to greet their Queen,, and escort her to her palace. The prospect of the visit, of his Tfpyal Highness Prince produced extraordinary excitement. Great preparations were made all' over the island, natives, and Europeans uniting in one common re-, golve to pfs*\ *"« .reception ,aU ih'at their means could afford^ tor their ingenuity 1 invent. ' The Bohooner ' Zillah,' ,reipeoting which vessel we have' from time to, time jnfdrnied pur readers, has b<*en sold by" the French Government, for a breach of contract. -The proceeds of ftiesale amount to 4,000 dollars. 1 'The Yum of. 3,000 francs it offered by the dovernment tot \ thel apprehension ofi Captain Wyatt, and it" was' rumoured that the 'OhevOTt,' on her way to Callao, would.put' in at the ,*djacent islands with a view to gleaning information as to hi* t whereabouts. ' tt is thought; however, thjat Jie is concealed on the island of Tahiti. ' J ,' „ No newV confirmatory br'otherwise,; is[brdtfght respecting ( the repartee! murder pf Captain' Hayes.' The 'Kate Grant' had 1 sailed' lor New' Caledonia on her r way 1 hither,'; and the «Eugenic* arrived at Tahiei after » good passage of 24' days, and was to folfow ttie « Neva' in « fortnight: ' ' The administration of the TaWti Cotton Company hasten to inform the public, and 1 particularly the planters of cotton, that,' by a letter teceiV,ed .from LonaW.'MV'Soares has madjs known to Mr. Stewart ' that 300,",' bales' of cofcfdo, -Weighing about 105,000 kilogrammes; forwardedvift New Zealandj by ;the ship • Warwick;''have Vealiied at public sale 5 francs 70 cents' Afer kilogramme fojrthe first '(Jualijiy, »d 3 francs' 80 cents'for cotton gathered in the wetseaion. The loh'g'aiUc cotton of HibplantttibnsanrJtlie cotton of Tahiti «re now ia dem»nd'npon the spot. The harvests in .Georgia haye 1 been' bad', 'and - thin increase id the telling notice iq" likely to be maintained: therefore greaij'enobusagement fop the ■plan&rsV'of wliioli they, wilt l!o»o welJ to -til^e »dvan-'tagev-b^ d ejtendirig and Bestowing greater care 6n thiir x 'ftilt^ationi. ["^/J* I';,;' ;'_ tr ' J -' ii 1.9^.1 .1 , . . < " .. *r <i ji-i , i i " ' '- • j j | <

j ■ • Raisin* <sos WiND.-U&h' anecdote is told of an eminent Judge now deatl.u While ajunior he had t6 speakibt somequuestionableproceMLtJogs,!and said, - u Gentlemen of .the jury, othe s defendant! has been * amusing ■ himwlf< by flying kites.??—" Doing < what f' said the'Jodge; '■ tAFlyiog>ii!es f .my i lord his nameitoi accommodation, biUs.'J—^Why arer they e«lledi'kUe«t';~"Whyr,- injs lord, .there » a «oniiectiori betwieen- theJtchoolbajfi kite and wind; onlyv«ih- one instance^vthe wind raises th^ kite ; in ithe-pther, the kite, raises the: wind.'] _> < ! ! .;. AHIUimKK' off ,-NajpmsiSoap.— TheMcditerraneo, i% B6utboniat.' organ '»fc... Naples, advocates - the claims ofvthat cityittaibft.theicapital.oif Italy, eriume--oratiog^f as grounds of- its superiority overall rivals, ttfitaf Mu&ftky, its burnine Ve»ayjiu«, it« Jively and, infcellfgetrt population^" We w,ottdei>it did hot add to thell»lfjof-4fecompai«ndatii>nii its jstioks, itf -eirocoo. auiiiitaolazzaroni,' T Tb&e would. Beena, to b« at least as^good grounds of -preference' as a scorching son, »n, ,actit«itoloano,. audafeathi9rr^e«d«d peonle,>hotm the one, andliable to eruption^ the other. ; ,