Popular Commandant
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Transferred.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Papeete, June 15.
A LARGE number of people gathered on the Papeete wharf when the s.s. “Astrolabe” sailed for France this week, to say farewell to Captain Maillot, who has been in command of the local detachment of Colonial Infan try for some years past. The band from the Brothers’ school was also in attend ance.
His genial personality, and the active interest he took in the promotion of sports and pastimes, made Captain Mail lot an exceedingly popular man through out the Colony, and one whose departure will be sincerely regretted by all nation alities. He is succeeded in his official command here by Captain Vaschier, late of the Foreign Legion, with which famous corps he spent several years in the French North African Possessions.