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GEORGE TAMOREE.

The whole result of this commotion promises tobe propitious instead of adverse to the cause of Christi­ anity . The chiefs have felt their dependence on theMission for right counsel in a time of anxiety and

minated by the people, headed the rebels, the war did not pro.bably originate with him. A day or two before his deathTaumuarii his late father made his will I was present on theoccasion, and heard him distinctly and explicitly state, in thepresence of the assembled chief, his desire that, at his decease,the ships he possessed, the fort, and arms, and ammunition, to-gether with the islands of Taui and Mihau, should be given toKaraimoku for the king Riho-Riho, then absent in Ensland.When Karaimoku, with about forty followers, went down to fixthe future government of the Islands , many of the chiefs broughthim presents, thereby paying him homage as their chief. Amongothers, George was proceeding down the river from his district,with a canoe laden with provision and fruits for Karaimoku,who by Taumuarii had been appointed his guardian. • Tiaima-kaui, who was the most active promoter of the war, with severalother warrior chiefs, met him, stopped his canoe, and said,“You shall not pay him homage, neither will we; come withus, you shall be our king; the Islands are yours, as they wereyour fathers ; you shall be king, and we are the nae Icon war-riors. Much will fight for you.” George carried not his present,united with them, formed a party, and took a principal sharein the attack and subsequent war. Tiaimakaui, after committingan act of most barbarous and treacherous murder in the onset,was afterwards slain, and his body treated with great in-dignity.

Amongthe friends of Karaimoku, who were slain in the attackon the fort, there was a fine tall intelligent young English-man, whose name was Trowbridge. He had left the ship inwhich he reached the Islands , and commanded one of thevessels belonging to Karaimoku, by whom he was highly re-spected.—"W. E.