ISLAND NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2147, 8 January 1891, Page 3

ISLAND NEWS.

Auckland, Jan. 7,

The s.b. Richmond airived from the Islands this morning. She reports things quiet at Tonga, Samoa aad Tihiti. The Rev Jas. Chambers, the well known missionary, arrived from Raratonga. Mr Moss, tbe receutly-appointed British Resident at Raratonga returned by the Richmond, preliminary to an official v'sit to the Hurvey Group. While at R*r.»tong>i he enquired into the reported expulsion of a British trader from M«tngtia, a so as to alleged abuses of the liquor traffic bewideß obtaining voluminous data for the Ner Zealand Government regardiag the prospects of trade, and the sta'e of the islmd "enerully. He visi'ed the islands in the ■*roup and was very cordially receive i by the natives. A strict liqaor law is n>* I passed in Raratonga, only permitting i e bule of strong drinks on a permit signed ■ by the prinoipftl chief, aad, placi ig the

whole of the liquor in the islands in charge of ongman. Queen Mnke» of Rnratonga has made a valuable preeent of a piece of Unci in Ararua township an a eifcs for the British Ri-eideiioy. The inhabitants generally will give labour and materials to the value of 350,000 dollare (?) free to build the residency. Mr Moss returus to fiaratonga shortly. Xieirß from RaratoDga vtatea th\t the schooner Awarua, formerly the Julia Price of Auckland, was totally lost near Aibataki Island in a squall, and all on board, sixteen natives, were drowned.

ENGLISH MARKETS. Lojtdoit, Jan. 4. The English wheat market is dull, Continental firm and American declining. Money is also declining, Three months' bills 3| per cent.

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