Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1859-10-01
Later from Tahiti.


By the American ship MOneka in 20 days from
Tahiti, we have received file of the Messager de
Tahiti up to Aug. 2S from which we make the fol-
lowing condensed extracts:
All foreigners are politely informed by the I'm
perial Commissioner that they cannot in confor-
nifty with the laws, establish their residences in
any district whatever without special permission
from the Director of European Affairs. The pro-
clamatOn says that these wise measures have no
wise for object to keep the foreigner away, but
the contrary to gradually accustom the natives to
the morals and manners of Europeans . and also
because ''the duty of the Protectorate requires
that the local administration should not permit,
without its surveillance. relations to be established
between the natives and the foreigners in which it
must be avowed that the natives are too often the
! dupes. Besides this simple superintendent every
facility will be afforded" etc., etc. Apparently
Tahiti has no more foreigners than the Government
can keep the run of; but were it TO have 300
whaeships visit its port, and 500 passengers from
! California to explore the country, we think that
such proclamation would be hooted down as be-
/ hind the age.
1 The three masted English schooner Dart
| Capt. Lenby, from Valparaiso fitted as pleasure
yacht arrived on the 9th July, bringing Mr.. Ur-
mensta, brother of the Secretary of State in Chile
/ and Member of the Senate, and wife, and Mr..
Forbes, sent out by the Geological Society in Lon
4 don, as passengers. Apropos of this arrival, the
Messenger regrets that since 1913 regular postal
service has been instituted between Tahiti and
Valparaiso, the natural products of which coun-
tries would seem to offer SO profitable an exchange;
and it informs US that during those l6 years SO
Chilean ships have arrived at Tahiti bringing i'm
ports to the value of five millions of francs, and
expending nearly an equal sum.
The quarterly commercial exhibit of the port
of Papeete for July 1st, shows
Imports-French or foreign produce
| from abroad, $3.50 IT.
Islands. 29,475 fr.
| Produce Protectorate islands, 2Il,7
Total imports, l,O24,996f.
Erporis-French or foreign goods re-
| exported, 443,ee4 fr. Al c.
Produce of Protect. Is., E.
| expt. for. countries, 330, ,45O
Total exports, 1884 fr. 44c.
Arrirea-47 vessels, {, 5,495 tons, 210 passengers.
| Cieared-45 1888 " so
Custom House Receipts-I5, ,O91 fr. O7 C.
In this exhibit it is observable that no importa-
tions come either direct from France or in French
bottoms and that none of the produce of the Pro-
tectorate islands is exported to France. ApPa-
rently then it is not for the commercial value to
herself that France keeps up the PTOtectorate.
From a proclamation against the thing, we
learn that some of the natives on the Tuamotas
had been practising sorcery worthy of the heath
en- times"
All the foreign residents in the different dis
trets of Tahiti have been invited by the Director
of Foreign Affairs to send in (' with the least de-
lay'') information of their names, given names,
professions ages domiclles, nationality, IT they are
married. widowers or bachelors, the number OF
children that they have and their ages, and hnaily
the time when they arrived at Tahiti"
We would like our Minister of Foreign Rela-
tions to issue similar invitation to the residents
of foreign extraction in this country.
The festivities of the 18th of August we're
celebrated with a spendor that is said TO have
ecIipsed any thing before seen of the kind IN Ia
hiti. Te Deun in the forenoon; parade, process
son salutes at noon horse races, foot races, boat
races in the afternoon; music and dancing IN the
evening People from Raiatea and lahaa, and
people from the farthest chain islands met and Of
ferred their respects to the Emperor and the
Queen.
-" The chiefs and chefesses of the Protector
ate estates were invited to send in their genealo-
gies, as as possible, to the Imperial Commis-
sioner They should go back to the great-great-
grand parents and include the latest born, following
the order of prmogeniture, and also note the
Deaths" Who will draw up and collate the gen.
ealogies of the Hawaiian chiefs and chiefesses?
The Imperial Commissioner DEGREES that from
the 18th August fixed price shall be imposed by
the Government on all bread baked in Tahiti once
a month, or otener if necessary; the price to con-
form to the current price of -four, taking 100 kog.
of -four at ? francs as the standard. The weight
of bread is also regulated and fines and penalties
imposed on all bakers who shall sell for more than
the government price or less than the government
weight. Article 8 of the decree prescribes that
the bread shall be well kneaded fermented and
baked and Article forbids the bakers to use
spoiled -four or mixed flour under pain of conisca-
ton. Two reasons are given for these measures.
One, that it is the custom in all French colonies;
the other, that it will tend to increase the use of
bread among the natives.
We should be inclined TO think that there was
but one baker Tahiti and he not the most honest
one, that it deemed necessary thus to restrict
his operations. We are happier here in Honolulu.
Here competition keeps the customers safe and the
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