PROGRESS OF NEW CALEDONIA UNDER THE FRENCH.

Colonist, Volume VIII, Issue 801, 30 June 1865, Page 4

PROGRESS OF NEW CALEDONIA UNDER THE FRENCH.

Latest dates from this French Colony are to 28th May, via Sydney. The following is from the Moniteur of New Caledonia:—

Hostilities broke out in April last between the Baye and Ina tribes. The cause was the refusal of a dusky beauty of the tribe of Ina to marry the aged chief of Baye, to whom she had been promised by her relatives. The commandant of the adjacent military post of Wagap promptly interfered, and put a stop to the contest; the effect of his chivalrous intervention being that the dark lady d'lna was permitted to. marry the man of her choice.

M. Guillery, the new commandant of Wagap, has reduced the turbulent natives in that part of the island to something like order. Poindada, the disaffected Chief of Tipendie, has been arrested; and Adeen, Chief of Cotoende, has been obliged to fly. The commandant is reported to be also taking steps to punish a troublesome insurgent chief named Gondou, at present concealed in the almost inaccessible mountain of Poinave.

The schooner Gazelle, which left the Port do France on the 24th April for Ouaraye, in order to purchase at that place a supply of sugar canes for the proprietors at Dumbea, came to an anchor on the 14th of May, at Dumbea, near the island of Nic (at the mouth of the river Dumbea), with not more tiiau one-third of what she had been sent for, —the hurricane of the sth of March last having done considerable injury to the sugar plantations. The plants were distributed in equal portions amongst Messra. Duboise, Numa Joubert, Ferdinand Joubert, Hoff, and Guillonneau.

M. A. Brajeul, an immigrant from the Island de la Reunion (Bourbon), has settled at JNTakety, and is turning his attention to the cultivation of rice. The grain he has produced is small, semi-transparent, and of a beautiful white color.