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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXII, Issue 5230, 17 July 1876, Page 2

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Fiom files to July r>, we extract the following items : — Ihe barque Pios2>ectoi is now icady for &ea — the internal h"ttinga,&.c, being about completed. She take* about 400 Inborn eis homo, and will bu accompanied with a government a g eii fc an ,\ ti doctoi. The Wosleyoii Mission brig J. Wesley cleared poit on Monday lnoimug for Loma Loma. She took with Jior hovci.iI Fijian ministers ami teachers for Now Biitain. Tho Fieuch man of-w.u Vno .11 rived in port on the 4tli.inst.iut. Shu left this port en route fiom New Caledonia 11 few months since, forw, cuuso 111 tho Pacific, calling at Tahiti and other islands whoio Fiencli subjects and missionaries sue settled. She his some eight or ten piisonon on boaid fiom Tahiti 111 tr.tnaitu to tho penal settlement at New Caledonia. Mr. Fioctor, an Amoiicnu cituon, 0110 timo planter at tho Uu River and lately lesulingat Wallace Iiland, is also on boau), having been bi ought up from ticio tointeiviow tho United States Consul at this port, 111 conHO(juenco of some row between J roctoi and thj l-'n-nch mimiou.irion. At tho tuno of out visit on board, however, we weio infoimcd that he w.is at duiuor in tho captain's cibm; so to nil appeaiances tho Frenchmen stem to bo taking good euro of their Ameiicim visitor. Pei haps tho 4th of July— tho Centen 111.1l -will h.ivo Homethiiig to do with it. The V110 will mako a stay ol about three days, and then leave foi New Caledonia. The late Governoi of the French Colony of Tahiti, Mons. M (jilbeit Pieneh.w been succeeded by Mons. M'iMiclmux. The Viie c a lies six guns and 11 coniplurncnt of 81 nion The schoonei Dauntless, which was puichased some time silica by .Mi. lloung Leo, has, dining tlie last few weeks l)et.ii r.asod 40ft in Hhoie.it Nuikoiokoro, by Mi. Deleaves, the successful tenderer for the work, anil placed 111 portion for repair, which will pioceed almost initae-

l'i'\ W ih U tile' WUl^Ilt of till' \ISM*1 is 1 "nil ml') i >n :i!iMntion, l»L'ih.i])s .'00 tons, the woi\ tlnw unnpli'tul is not so '-li^htlas it won il .ippe u .it in -.t sight, in the .ili^ence of ,i S l[l