Old Hands’ Scorn.

Tahiti’s Libellers Get Another Kick.

From Our Own Correspondent.

PAPEETE, March 24.

WE wish to go on record here with very sincere cheers for the muchneeded article by Mr. Robert Dean Prisbie and similar remarks by the Editor in the February issue of the P.I.M. in regard to the increasing epi demic of “depression-evaders, beach combers, alcoholics, lechers and roman ticists” which has infested the Islands for some time.

All the old-timers here agree with us heartily on this point.

Now that the matter has been made a definite public issue, we feel it in cumbent on us to broadcast a warning to budding nincompoops infected with “cacoethes scribendi” to confine their incredible prevaricating ability to their own filthy little home towns. Give the yokels a treat, by all means, but don’t send them mooning down to the quiet South Seas with the last few pennies from little Johnnie’s bank. We speak feelingly in this matter, and hope it goes a lot further.

We also take this opportunity to re mark, most emphatically, that at no time are the chances of obtaining em ployment in Tahiti, for a European, anything but the very slimmest, and in these days they are nil. Tourists and visitors of the right sort will meet with a hearty welcome, can enjoy a good time amid the most pleasant surround ings, and at very reasonable cost, but we draw the line at the eccentric speci mens of humanity alluded to in the articles quoted.