Pomare V.
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Notable Event in Papeete
From Our Own Correspondent
Papeete, Mar. 10.
r[E social event of the year at Papeete has been the soiree de gala for the erection of a monument to King Pomare V., under the presidency and honour of His Excellency, Monsieur
Chastenet De Gery, held at the Theatre Moderne on March 4.
The first number of the programme was a prologue depicting the days of the old kingdom, in which the high chief Teriieroiterai represented the king. Two venerable elders —Punua-Arii-Taie (80 years of age) and Mahina (81 years of age)—sat at the right and left hand of the king, forming a stately tableau.
The varied programme was most in teresting and the performance of a high standard of excellence.
The presence of Punua-Arii-Taie was of historic interest, as it was he who raised the flag of France on the flag staff at the quay at Papeete when the island passed to France, in 1880, at the time Pomare V. ceded his kingdom.
Pomare V., last reigning Sovereign of Tahiti.