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Tahiti
From Our Own Correspondent
T Papeete, Nov. 30.
HE completion and dedication of the solid and handsome meeting-house by the Ra’iatea Colony on Tahiti, has initiated a new train of thought in the young people of both Tahiti and Ra mtea.
The experience of a whole week of joyous, healthy festivity, of singing and feasting from which all alcohol was rigidly excluded—has awakened our young Tahitians to the lasting value of the clean customs of their grandfathers, as compared with the shoddy, unwhole some atmosphere of the honky-tonks.
A revival of the old, beautiful choral singing—which fits perfectly the tem perament of the Polynesian—is in the making, Ra’iatea’s achievement in erecting the most handsome and stately Fareputu puturaa (district meeting-house) in Poly nesia, has aroused all the other districts and islands to emulation.