TAHITI.

New Zealander, Volume XIX, Issue 1973, 15 September 1863, Page 2

TAHITI.

Wb have received four consecutive numbers of the Messager, from the 6th to the 27th June, inclusive ; and if we may judge from their general contents, the able Governor, who so manfully grappled with and dealt a death blow to the Peruvian slave piracy, is carrying on the social and material improvement of the islands in the most commendable and successful manner.

The screw Aviso Latouc\e Treville, M. de St. Sernin, so distinguished in the suppression of slave piracy, and which is at present at Sydney undergoing a refit, had been actively employed. She had paid an official visit to the island of Moorea, the object of which was to assist at a native fete, to be celebrated by the reunion of all the inhabitants of Moorea at the village of Tea-varo-Tenharoa. The Imperial Commissioner transmitted to the chief Tuahiro and to Mooheno first class medals of honour which his Excellency the Minister of Marine and Colonies had awarded to those natives in acknowledgment of their devotion at the time of the wreck of the brig Railleur on the reefs of the Maripa. At Moorea, as well as at Tahiti, the construction of new villages advances rapidly, and the organization of district councils has had the most happy results in developing the interests of civilization and of the Tahitan family A plan for laying out the streets and regulating the management of the town of Papeete had been approved of. The Governor and his staff had paid a visit to several islands in the archipelago of Tuamotu. A lengthened and apparently interesting description of Pitcaim Island (translated from the English), of what writer we know not, occupies several successive numbers of the Messager. In that journal of the 20th June, there appears a lengthened correspondence, translated from the Lima papers, on the subject of Peruvian slave piracy, which seeks to cast the onus of piratical atrocity from infamous traders and land owners to still more infamous tools the masters of their piratical slave ships. These documents are too lengthy to be dealt with now, but they are but lame and impotent palliations of atrocities for which we hope the most exemplary reparation will yet be demanded. In the meanwhile it is some satisfaction to learn that Jose Rodriguez and Juan Compbell, captain and supercargo of the Peruvian vessel Guillermo have been arrested to answer for their misdeeds.

In the paper of the 27th, there are several documents relative to the piratical demonstrations of the brigs Misti and Guyas, and the barque Serpiente-Marina, the first and last of which together with the Chilian barque Mathias-Salvi-nius, still remained in duresse in the roadstead of Papeete. Our notorious acquaintance the Blundell Captain Leax, which arrived at [Papeete on the 27th April, seems likely to make as prolonged a stay in the waters of Tahiti as in those of New Zealand. She was reposing there on her beautiful shadow on the 27th June ; and there she may repose for some time longer, unless she be permitted to pass under the stern of his Imperial Majsty's ship Dorade in a similar unquestioned manner as that in which she here eluded the vigilance of ILM.S.S. Miranda.