During the last session of the Council, a sum was placed on the estimates for the relief afforded to certain distressed seamen, said to belong to vessels of the colony of New South Wales, by the Provisional British Consul at Tahiti, in the year 1842.

The Council at that time refused to vote the amount, in the want of definite information as to who the seamen were, and in what manner they had left their respective vessels. A return lately laid on the table of the Legislative Council gives the information as follows:

William Morris, of the Hannah ;
Edward Brown, of the Nelson ;
Robert Hitchcock, of the Mary ;
Nicholas J. Utley, Henry Smith, and William Higham, all of the Lucy Ann ;

left at Tahiti, as unfit from sickness to proceed in their vessels;

John Nash, of the Lucy Ann, brought by the French frigate Reine Blanch (sic), from the Marquesas to Tahiti. and left at Tahiti destitute, but the circumstances under which he left the Lucy Ann unknown.

The expense of each individual for subsistence, clothing, and medical assistance was, for:

Total amount paid at Tahiti, �120 Os. 3d.

The men were forwarded to Sydney by various vessels.

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