TAHITI.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4504, 1 February 1872, Page 2

TAHITI.

\Ve are in receipt of intelligence from Tahiti up to the Ist of December last. On the sth of October last, by an official ordinance, Tomitio,, a native of, NukaMvain 7 £be> Marquesas (acoused of murder and acquitted), was, under the law* of the 28th April, 1843, and of 14th January/ 1860,-cottdemned to b9 expelled from tbe;Colo.ny as a measure of, public safety. -He is to be imprisoned at | Papieti (in the- Georgian- Islands) .until hisj transportation itjiarrisd out. ' The jjeryijee for. the guardianship of the , aborigines at Tahiti, has been! transferred 'from' fche-board by ,vhiph it has hitherto been exercised, oniVoificer^who hi %o act under directions: published in the Mcssagcr. This official iii called the Directeur dcs Affaires Ind^enis. VL4. Dorence Atwater has tieeu^prdTisioßc»|y recognised by the Tahitian Qovermrfeot st^ 'CobWul for ihe "United- SUtei of Anaerioa |a* Tahiti, on. the appoihtnient- of : M*. Praneuk .IPeriiiis, ,'riow absent from Tahiti. By a .Royal Ordinance, countersigned by M. Girax of, the Key. Mr. jMetuaaro aPaofao hafAesn removed fronuhw, pastoral office as^tjfasr; b«en'aiipointedi Goternmeat^areffieriiTotaire, stationed at Tahiti, h*s Ibeenprqinoted rank'of W Oon&ifaider of the Legiott of Honour, •S'forfy yeats' iertic«.