Tahiti Notes.

From Our Own Correspondent.

Papeete, July 20.

MR. and MRS. C. C. CURTIS, who have been absent from Tahiti for the last eight months, on a visit to America and Europe, are returning by the “Ville de Strassburg,” and when the July fes tivities are over will take up residence again on their plantation at Mahina, in the Haapape district.

Mr. and Mrs. Curtis are well-known and esteemed here, not only on account of their bounteous hospitality extended to them friends at “Mahina” and their general good qualities, but also because they take a keen interest in the further ance of any project for the public wel fare. As a sportsman, Mr. Curtis has won local renown by carrying off several prizes with his pair of trotting horses, imported last year from America; but there are others on the trail now, and he will have to look to his laurels in future.

The Cook Island schooner “Tiare Ta poro,” Captain Viggo Rasmussen, arrived in Papeete last week with a cargo of copra from Penrhyn Island, bringing as passengers Ayson, C.M.G., Resi dent Commissioner for the New Zealand Government in the Cook Islands, who has been making one of his periodical trips through the northern part of his territory, and Mr. Stephen Savage, Gov ernment Registrar and interpreter at Rarotonga, but latterly acting as Resi dent Government Agent on the island of Manihiki. Judge Ayson will return to his headquarters at Rarotonga on the mail steamer.

The “Tiare Taporo” is now on the slip at Fareute, where she will be overhauled and repaired by Messrs. Walker Bros.; when this work is completed, she will proceed to the Cook Islands with a load of gasoline and fuel oil.