Stray Notes.

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 6, 3 November 1888, Page 3

Stray Notes.

Bt a Yaosait*

And so Mr.-Editor the poor Vag is threatened with a full-blown libel action by the Sydney Daily Telegraph'* Special. You may be sure the Vag won't apologise worth a oent, but will maintain what be haa written in spite of the threats of an apostate Britisher even if these same threats are backed up by taxes unjustly extorted from a suffering people. ' It has j<Mt ooeurted to me. that the reason given by the German Consul for attacking an unarmed natire boat

the other day, namely, that they (tho natives) went on to German fend at Hulinuu with hostile intent, is a most peculiar oae. Had these people gone there intending to commence hostilities the German Consul has not shown thai then was anyone at Hulinuu to prevent them carrying out their intention, and as these people did not commit depredations on the nqint (always supposing them to have gone there, which t in common with all people desiring to tell the truth, deny), I, for one am at a loss to see how a man of presumed intelligence, like the German Consul, can arrive at this conclusion from such premises. And so " the Only Special" is gone to Atua to assist (I suppose) in keeping the few remaining adherents of Tamaseee together, and to, perhaps, corroborate the old story told to the natives about the men-of-war which are coming to help crush the rebellion in the sweet bye and bye.* And so another old landmark is gone, H. Hartin Huge. He will be greatly missed by many who have been j his contemporaries in the past history of Samoa, and who must now deplore the loss of a genial and honorable : gentleman of the old conservative school.