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Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 10, 1 December 1888, Page 3

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TO THE SAMOA TIME*, i! ljUA'iwaVn person' has taken the. trouble to go out «f his waV to attack me. *tho paragraph quoted froini" the Daily TeUyraph is distinctly true, every line of M. I trjist you will hear thfe out as ihero are sever.il gentlemen on the heach who Tain sure hold a higher position in the social scale than J. 11. Denvers who were not asked to sign his petition. As to my wishing to do so, he knows himself what occurred when I spoke to him on the subject. J. 11. Denvers should hear in mind that there are two sidVs to every question. If my views do not please him or his satellites I cannot help it. Political shoemakers are a nimanco wherever met with! and verily J. H Denvers is enother living example. As to the news supplied to the Sydney Daily TeUgrajpk I maintain it is substantially correct, and am only sorry the intelligent residents of Samoa have not'had the opportunity of judging for themselves. Gutter literature of the J. H. Denvers type no doubt finds favor in his own circle. At any rate, J. H. Denvers, if it pleases you it does not hurt me.—l am t Ac TBR Sr-KCUL C-ORRFSPOSPENT of the Sydney Daily Telegraph.

TO TBS EDITOR OF TBS SAMOA TIMES. 8i», —Your last issue had an article on « non-political subject, namely, " currency and spurious coia circulating is Samoa." Now allow me to state the actual standard value of these Chili, Pern, &c, dollars in those countries we am trading with, vix. :-In San Francisco $1 is worth 65 cts. in gold j in Sjdney SI is .worth . 2s. 6d. in gold : in Auckland fit is worth 2s. 6d. in gold. The advertisement of " 14 years' experience," saying that be will take the above dollars for Bs. Bd. does not show-that said dollars are worth it, and only gives •peculations more room. But let as go 2600 miles away from us, sod we find a place resembling ours where the Consulate of

(3) three great nation* holding prominent places, and unless I am greatly mistaken none of them will receive this, our standard Samoa coin air its fuceor cireuJrttinff ralun, all knowing it w a spurious coin. All take it either for 3a. or less, or refuse taking it at all, insisting on the gold coin of their respective country being paid for fees, Ac. But why dp tho Consuls tolerate such money being paused above its actual value. Surely their gain by sslling cheques or by exchange do<>s carry weight with them. Lent year the storekeepers, headed by Messrs. Wm. McAithur ft 00., Grevsmuhl ft Go., and H. J. Moors gave battle to the Bolivian money by takiug and giving it over the counter at its real value, vis., 50 ets. for §l. • Why do not the same parties do it with the Chili, &e.,- ooin ; one is as bod as tho other. Perhaps the shiploads of dollars from Tonga, imported' at tho rate of 75 cto. for a dollar must bo parted with for §1 to tho disadvantage of the employers of all parties at 33} per «-ent. gain to the importers.' Thelast Mau war brought some $1 00,000 of Peruvian silver here, buying it at-the rate of S7OO for S6OO in gold at Galao. The sooner the whole community of Samoa dooa away with the fictitious value of those spurious coins the bettor for all. The shareholders in the charge of German and English firms are the sufferers for the prices thoy pay for copra, the only products of this country, is far in excess of their profits on the exchange ot the Chili monoy which is to-day from 33J to 40 tier cent on gold. To remedy this existing commercial evil the small store keepers have to'combine independent of the Deutsche Handels and MoArthnr Co., and take the devil by his horns by resolving to pass our Samoa currency only for what it is worth, and if those firms that do wnnt cash for carrying on trade in baying copra would not numut let them alone; the natives wituld soon refuse taking money above itsHcttwl walno. As for getting* bettetwrin Imps© tßartO'thase who infmrtod this b*«» eota; >Ttaf»A.

'«**«rl*lM»Ve *J iwpOrt gtJbil ~>Vti>**rleave off trading-h<Bftf> -ffhtfee that Want copra -will• get tfi'ei krnd ß of; ««lti wanWd toT>ujrit.No*ou>t if Great Britain or Germany annaxes u« we *»«uld get a* good gold coin as th«y have id Jahiit and other places. But as long na we are -Tilled by one German firm through a nominee King, there ia no chance of right being right. The money ia-wrong and must go, independent of all political domineering, or Samoa will nevor be prosperous. —I am, Ac. Fatutae.

TO TDK EDITOR OF THB SAMOA TIMES. Sib, —What constitutes a true-born, respectable British resident in Samoa ? It appears first: That you must belong to a certain clique, but which of the many into which the British residents are divided at present, cannot be devined." Second : That you must most markedly hate all Germans, their actions, and everything belonging to them with the most inveterate, everlasting hatred, and " emphatically " deny that any German, or the whole German nation has ever done, or ev*r can or will do any action whioh can be clawed as good, or have anything good belonging to them. Third: Thai in respect to .all important matters arising in Samba, you must' have distinctly one-sided opinions, and write them so as to be inserted in the Colonial newspapers; also to bear in mind that the sin .is not in misstatements sent, but in being caught in the fact of sending them. 80104 persons (if it had been known > would nave been severely trapped had as much notice been taken of the communications to the New Zealand newspapers as is now taken of the communications to the Sydney Daily T«Ugr*ph. Fourth: That you roust allow yourselves to be guided by the non-representative* yet employees of a British firm harieg a branoh business in Samoa, woo imagine in their childish notions, that th*y only are of the highest importance; that they can and ought to-rule the whole of the British residents 'here, and can command the whole British

navy and (he Government itself, for the furtherance of their petty desire*, (themes end comfort.. Yet-a petition was got up by these wonderful, egotistical, three tailors of Tooley-street, non-representatives of a sterling British firm, asking only whom they chose and not the wholenf tho British residents' to sign, _ requesting Admiral Fairfax to leave a man-of-war hero/ If the Admiral did so, was it for their protection only ?' Cortainly not. There, is no doubt hut that that petition was recorded" in tho " Archives' of the store," beoause tho Admiral saw the necessity of protecting British subjects in Samoa, without any dictating to as to what he ought to do. ° The " Spocial Correspondent" of the Sydney Daily Telegraph spoke the truth when he reported that many British subjects were not asked to sign that petition. "If he said 15 were not" W may have made a mistake as regards number, it is certain that if 15 were uo.t asked, he was very near' the true number, and those not asked, including the " Special Correspondent," form., as respectable a portion of the British community as ever the non-representatives' of the British firm ore, arid are aim responsible and influential residents, and have an equal right to the protection of their Government in time of need, and know how to obtain that protection without acting selfishly or egotistically. —I am, &c. VIHDEX.