THE NOTORIOUS CAPTAIN HAVES AGAIN.

Evening Post, Volume XIII, Issue 6, 8 January 1876, Page 2

THE NOTORIOUS CAPTAIN HAVES AGAIN.

In a recent issue we (Sydney Mail) published a paragraph in reference to the notorious Captain Hayes. We have since received some further information respecting this celebrated character from a trader, who has just arrived in Sydney by the German schooner Coeran, from the South Sea Islands. This person informs us that he was at Guam, towards the latter end of the month of April last, and Captain Hayes was there with the fore-and-aft schooner Arabia, 20 tons. There are a number of Spanish prisoners at Guam, and Captain Hayes made a bargain with several of these convicts to take them away in the Arabia, for a consideration of twenty -four, dollars apiece. They gave him the money (or moneys worth) and -went on board the schooner'; but the Spanish authorities, having obtained some inkling of the affair, arrested Captain Hayes on the beach, and placed him in safe, custody. Tlft men in the schooner, seeing what had occurred, and observing that the soldiers were about to get into a boat for the purpose of boarding the schooner, cut the cable, made sail, and were soon beyond pursuit. In nine days the Arabia arrived at the Pellew Islands, in the Carolied group, and the convicts went across the island to a village called Artocolange, where they were seen on or about the sth or 6th May, by our informant and the crew of the Coeran. About this time Captain Holcomb, of. the American -schooner Scotland, arrived at the Pellew Islands, and, seeing that there was no one on board the - Arabia capable of navigating the vessel, took possession of her as an abandoned ' vessel. Some of the escaped convicts, it is said, have since arrived in Sydney.

" Charity begins at home/ is well defined by a little Sunday school- child as meaning " Giving to others what we don't want ourselves." r