THE SAMOA TIMES. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1888. Local and General News.

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 11, 8 December 1888, Page 2

THE SAMOA TIMES. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1888. Local and General News.

H.M.B. Royalist, 12 guns, arrived in harbor on Tuesday last, from Sydney. The following is a list of bar officers:-Captain, G. W. Hand; Lieutenants, W. F. Tunnard, F. Plumer, J. P. Rolleaton, A. H. Lyon*; S^ B !5S t 2» ?* felt*"*' Cufiott; Engineer, W. Ooop«;'Aa»Utaot Paytnaeter, 8. If. Feooell. Sinua our last report that both p«r : tie* bad apparently caaaed fighting t.y eommoo ooneent, wa hate little war news fran tha front. The combatant* atem to hold.their position*, whioh are - ' abottt JIOO yard* from one*another. with stoat iigilanca, not a moTeraent oi ifjfcjr twke nlaoe without ttdOftomilrVj tk* other. Several taoagnlfe* peraoaa on both aides who ' > |b«ww< MmmMt* too opeftry oamo to & : m

grief. la this manner we believe that four or .five men were killed and a few wounded*. What kind of preparations either party are making for' the next S'M we have no means of learning, r. Brendeis we hear is giving his military experience in tbeeerriee of Tatnaaese while Itataafa is left' solely to his own contrivance. All kinds of rambrs are spread about the town as to the time Mataefa intends to make another' attack. We ourselves are not in the secreVbdt We think it likely to be. within a week or two, when Mataafa will in all probability be"bettor provisioned. Hi* people are continually travelling'mites westward for supplies ado! wrttrrabig well ladwn. pn Wednesday evening, two days aft«r the arrival of H.M.B. Boyalisr, H.M.'s gunboaf Lizard' left for Fiji. Capt*. Pulley and his officers, during their short stay in Apia, experienced rather an'exciting time, watching the events of the native w.ir, which they in common with all feeling people,, looked upon as a useless sacrifice of life. "Cant. Pelley and his officers wire highly esteemed by all classes in Apia, and when steamjng past the U. 8.8. Adams the men of that vessel crowded on h«r deck and rigjnng, and their farewell cheers could be heard all over Apia.