Frank Warning To

Idealists

Probable Fate Of New Community At Marquesas

From Our Own Correspondent.

Papeete, July 20.

iTUIE Marquesas Islands, when viewed JL from the sea are picturesque and imposing; high mountain peaks of 'Stirange shapes; lofty cliffs along the coast against which the waves of the sea dash in endless battle; deep bays that offer safe harbour to a hundred ships.

Ashore, however, there is none of the smiling graciousness of the Tahitian land scape.

High, beetling precipices, grim and for bidding. brood over sombre valleys shad owy with the melancholy memories of a vanished race. Those who are obliged to sojourn there, by reason of their duties or their interests, are always glad when op portunity permits their return to Tahiti or some other of the Society Islands.

Natives of the happier isles of the south do not like to go as labourers to the Mar quesas, and, in consequence, the labour problem there is a constant tribulation for plantation owners.

We can easily foresee what will happen to the “ideal community” whose plans are outlined in an article in the April issue of the “P.1.M.”. It would be a wasted effort for us to go into detail. The ad vice of those wh,o know is never acceptable to those who dream.

The really bright prospect for this “com munity” is that each member will be com pelled by law to deposit with the authori ties at Papeete a return steamer ticket to Sydney. Then, when their dreams shall have become nightmares and their de parture shall be speeded by the black sandfly of Nukuhiva, they will be assured of transportation to the place whence they came.