Correspondence.

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

Correspondence.

W« are'always willing to (fire insertion to letter* of explanation or intermit, but wa wish it to be distinctly understood that We do uot eudorw tue opinion* rxprsr*.-.!. Ol language used, by our coriyspondeuts. Our idea* of passing event* will be found in our local or editorial columns.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE SAMOA TIMES. Bra, —Your correspondent '• Viudex" in your last iasueasks " what constitutes a true-born respectable British resideut iu Samoa?" This question is somewhat ambiguous, and I cannot answer it as he puts it, out I think I can te.ll him what it trnn-boru Briton is. A child bom of British parent's in any of H.B.M.'s possessions, is und-'uUedly a true-born Briton ; but though the child is a true-born Briton, it does not nee- ssarily follow that he or she should he a true Briton ; unfortunately we have every day ovidonoe to the contrary. If you will permit m« I will give you .my idea of a true Brit«m ; and I hhtill picture this " truo Briton " in' inuscu line shape : A true Briton should bo a man of truth, honesty a.id integrity ; one who would sacrifice life itself rather than descend to fnl-ehond mi! i-hicau-ery. or betruy the interests mid honor | of the country of his birth. But sad I to say. there are men who, f.>r the sako , o ( gai , or temporary ndvautaajf, will , not only degrade thomsefves, but in j doing so, oast a slur on tho h<nor of j their country and their countrymen. Such are not true Britons, t!.oio;!i ("truly bom Brit.ns.'' Theie are [ respectable (t*unl 11 term) Biitrsh sub j JHt-ts in Samoa, but uotwirhatauding ! thuir respc-ctu l ility it i" just pn.*siblu j they aro not all true fidtons. -I am, ! &o. Viax )K. TO THE EDITOR OP THE SAMOA TIMES. Sik,—l think "The Speciul C- >fV««pondent yf'. thd Sydney Dotty Ttl* \<jraph'\ hiis dibcetidd luto wlisit he J'calfa ' ,^teVTti<<raJuri-,' > 'iVV Irisraiifa.-ki •' rlfrpWaoir named J. H. TVnv'»is.-'« I had a &m> 'of'the Daily Tttyraph i | senf me' ciruTahiing tho crtnrqjnmcation • in'qfibith/ri.'uni mint'•cerfnirily *Hiuk ; Mr. Denver* was justified ii.hisd.mml j of its 00/r.-ic-liehs. As to the petition ; to the AHnifral that of Mr. Den- > vers. I happen to be in a posi-ion to i any itdid not emiuute from him; he- ! b. in;? reqMOßted :V do so. niobrtook : ihe task'of g.tting sigimfnr-s. and i evidently U s-i d discretion in the nniiter. Mr. Denver.- it seems ran us-e list pen us well as his "awl, an 1 ':■ lie is p. j apt with the lmt-r as with tho former I he must jjive «ati-f::.ti.. , ;,> hi* cuhi tomers. Tho"Speeia l Conespoudent" j should know th.it politics and Drains ; to understand them, in- not the pro- : petty of any "special " class, and that | men (I mean real men) of good birth j and education, an 1 rt spirit of inde* j pendence, tnko up callings, not perhaps ; congenial, but at any rat« honorable j.and honest, rather tlian fall into pur--j suits more profitable but questionable in character.—l am, &o. Cms. TO THE EDITOR OP THE SAMOA TIMES. Sir,—l hev bean reedin of ure papur an i want to noWe wnt Mister I Viudex meons to sai in hie lettur. I lean hiaik out nul the tother letturs j nerely.but the hole of hiz is such-a , micksed up pVtiel, i kaut majk it out j a bit, praps u kan in ure nekst putt in a fue lines, and tell us wot it is aul j about. He sais tbair ar 3 tailers in 1 tooley street; i hev livd in Samoa a | gud menny yere. but i newer eard of I tooley street, nor 3 tailers ether; he ! uzos such long words; i hev copped a fue egotistical, emphatically, nonrepresentatives, miss-statement, (hoo ;|s>he?) I think Mr. Tinder must | hev beau drinking prety hovy wen he i rot© that ere lettur. Praps u kood g"t ira to rite it over agen wen he is I »obur, an not uze siolt long wurds, ao j that ornirttry peppel kan maik it out. | Wat in the naim of fortun duz he I meen by " Arch ives in a store;" were ie a store in Bamoa with eny sort of I Arch ives. Stores aint bilt like that i hut. I M at the sod* «f bis i, lt ur

he putit in egotistical agen, but then lie spels it different; he hex put a ]y to it; with is right ? i might wrong, i expect the ly iirijrht.—l*m, &c. > Siratb FtwuattO. Apia, Doc. 3, 1&«8.■■■• • ';". i - ' To THE EDITOR OF TUB SAMOA TIKIS. Si it. Many suggestions have been innde in your columns, for the welfare and progress of Samoa, but the important fact of not using'he true date seems to have neon overlooked. An error like this should nut I e uijy longer porinitt- il to go on ; more so, whan it con he remedied • ho quu-k!y ; and would occasion no supposed grievance, as did the introduction of the up w.style of reckoning liy Gregory Xlliii 1582, which wat slowly," <bough--i'Soirely adopted by tlie imtiiiiis of Europe (exupjuiug Russia' awH*ui%ftßijf,'i as ttvy *aw thogreatnii-titke'-'lhWy "had fall-n into;' •'DutWjf'ih'is-'.yriir there have been ;wo Uniting t»Vt>iit«..:-point-ing out to nil that u fal.-u date is'being used here, viz.; the official V*oog<itrion of the Day of Iridepefireftf'their'&A., which was on the so-called 'srh of July nn I that of the Print* of Wales* Hffthday, on the sn-c«tfed'JOtli of NilvWber. Such puldie demoustratioue of the fart proves the uftum! error,; Hud should iu-'iii.sh thu res.ib tits to have the true date in u>e. 'P he end uf the your is approaching, and would-lie a reaHouable tiibe to eoriet't erro'rs; and begin a true-life u* it -w«r«< with -the npwyiar. llnw did the error ci«-ep in t Th' ip can only hi* two reasons ; first! 'but the early settlers in Samoa were ignorant of a few simple geographical facM Second, that if it were not dou>' in ignorance, those early bp(tltsr mil-Chare (t«urf'it is well known that sojne of tlu-m would have the iiudncity t« do it) s<t up a first -nioridiuu of their own. It is a kuowiffaut that longitude has not a natural or fixed *tflrtiiij» place or point *h latitude has. Therefore nil natfofirffh'ftve* nt c»ne time or ether rho»en Iheir u» n t»st Ait-ridiaa of hmgiluuV'j'-ae' for iatttane**, tneDutch■unif Uiftiab *ho«e s<e ftierlitlntt' rtf Orneii «iMi-j 't'rWuce, I »oif tfrMfa»»

•*ir£-i,J)« ».f Wirth*ng».uv'iimi ito. on. TwtHtray old chart* uotlud'thatr tku ■firrft nleYiftinri j of i en* 'iKlamlH.i'' 'Ai-u . of thn-ijittrt. , a»i'liial I Conference ut Washington; IJ.'S.A. in j Oil., 1884, a f.-HoloMoir #i!» aififlttiHl, I providing tJmt • lrtn<,"tun> t«hall bo fuoii>-trd from tli»' tut-ntiinn of trinr-n----i wii-h in two din l-ttotlfl Irfl to 180 -d«*g. i foist liMiuj.HiJie, pirn, Wiwf fjongir'udi*, ! ifcntu. Franco wa< tit'f oulv aittioii , -wlio "ppo>od. tbi« ilel-tM.M) N>\v tlie lo! g-itndf of a ; luo« ie', the iiutiilier of "•di-grooH on iho parallel of latitude j »Itieh an- between, the first meridian and auy cull r hiefidiuTi required for the locating of any giveu pLce. All j blocUH north or couth of each otaer, have rheir noon ~t tlie-namo time,' mid a'e therefore said to be on the same meridian of longituiKi. longitude ie ' reckoned Jtost and Weet«|ioni 0 to 180 d-g., so one half of the -world is east of Grcunwii.il, and the otlw-r Jialf west. Therefore all places in the < astern half aroineaxt longitude, and atl"in the western half in w>«t longitude. As half round the world is 180 dog. this i is the g»eatt*)t longitude any pine too,' hav»». Now'if the longitude i>f a place t» given it is tin ea»y mutter to" reckon the tiuie for that meridian, ' It ie well known'that as the nun (apparently but not really) completes a diurnal revolution of 860 d*g. ia 24 hours, he will move over 15 deg. iu one hour, or 1 (leg. in 4 minutes. If a ohronomer be set to the time of the first meridian and points, say to 12 o'clock, when the sun is on the first meridian, then, if at some other place to which that chronometer has lieeu carried, it points to 8 hours 62 minute* p.m. when the sun is on the meridian the*e, the difference of longitude is 68 d»g. and the longitude will be wast aa (ha sun has •rriwdorer the place later than al the first meridian, «> if .the sun be over the meridian of a place at 9 hours 40 mmutes a.m., the longitude ie 85 asp. east by the ohronometer. Samoa is in the Western Hemisphere, therefore our dak » a toy forward. Apia i> situate-in Ifl d"g. 4'4*minutes west

to longitude,, therefore the true time here is 11 hours 26 minutaa 56 second* L»<sr . then <3**otiwich tiro*', vet uetu illy tho time uactfL.aowj* abead of Oreeuwiuh tiu#. «mtl i« a most glaring error. T•> correct this matter does not need the subject of the determination of loiigitu3e to b« gone into, as that only affects our astronomersand navigators, hut simply r-equirea that the residents ►hould combine to'gtker and agree that from und .after a certain day tho true d.ite nhall iTe kept, and it is certain that those who nmy eventually hold the « f g<i»»rnnienl would ratify such a procetdiug,—l am, &c. VIXtiEX. ' ... >rj) ... ...1 •

Toj&RyEniTOnoV fHE SiitOA TIMES. Siit.Ttr-''' ilhose whinn tk<» gods dcs.'troptfcey. first make mad." This ,ap- | ~ pi ai'*.lu.'he the easu wi hj Joiie*,, the, .. i; VlspenialC"riw|aM»de"t'' of l ' u * Svd- : >«' fly fifty Td'Sftpfi- el*ehe would not I have wriit«i»*»ui:li a contemptible mid j. (scurrilous reply .. t#»„. my letter of tno U-lth ultimo *• hj« lias, done. 1 have already -proved that JJti'-s, in addition to being utterly false in, all he him written, is also a spy for the TuniaacseBrandws patty, but I thought that lit- - iug a printer.he might, although ho has bcueme, degindeil, have a 'knowledge. of tho .usual custom in suoh u fane hh this, iindJisvo hrought forward some .ijguniont'in refutation of- the charges I made against him, instead of writing bui hj an utte>ly disgusting letter.' Jones ti'a stut.-d ihat I uiu a Jiving example of a nuisance. I thank Jones ..- and the party of which he is the only I mouthpiece for this opinion. It shows .that I have been of some -assistance, j ho.wev-r slight to th-' cause of right ! and justice. With regard to his hllu- i sion to my Wade 1 ■enn, atf«rd to pass j that over without much further i'-j ...mark.. If Jo ;<•-. is ashamed of tho. ■ tiaile Xam not. as I consider that any j umn.vrortiiy of die name has pow-r • Lo uiake any trade, however humble, ■ , Joiihs of couiso uu.in.t „ , uuderntiiiul. this argument, as having < uwAfhVbkl !«"!>»; frMjtt&i&til an 1 .that j al, ~ jj 1: wojstft: having, di* • »»> I PS |WWIWf*WWWtICTt (w Krad«d,th,e rt«i»f*haiw *>f whjuh, U«j i* ■•■•.' : »JH»,«whyi(lie'HlteiV ;.4onvi»:ftJsp!h4yi». „ ,tlufi,.gjutU»r;menjitaie,.trt';ithe •typo' A ;; fiude fftvor hi '..-. :Uytjqwu,eir*Je. <i*4U: pleased to any.. ~ thgtlhe,lei}er j-. Wioto to your pit|ior, . csiling attention to • few of the falsehoods which have heun wntb'ti hy . Joii-a, found favor with -all in Bainna . w u..j are eupahlo of holding views of * thfir.own .and. pot aim id of ex proving ihciu. I iau assure Junes that it has pleaded and.will continue to phase me to expose unr person having tl.e auda- . «»iy t» write to the press such infamous j falsehoods as'huvo liot-n wri ten by biro about.the Britit.il and American resid- ; ents of Samoa. In conclusion let me again tell Jones that his reiterated insertion "-that the quoted paragraph was distinctly true," is equally f.ilso with.aH he has previously written, aud I challenge him to prove the truth of - hUstatement. I may at the same time . iufurm him that I ehall not publicly . notice-any moreol h<scaddish amiseurrilous letters, I ut if he can write n decent l'ttei- containing' some argttne nt . 1 shall be happy to huye a tilt with liiui. . With regard to -your long-wiuded correspondent "Vindex;" when he takes the trouble to write, a little <om- . men sense and Irtmotne* possessed of sufficient manliness to sign his name. instead of attacking people anony r mously I can promise him that the per sons m whom he has endoavoie.! to expend his venom will deal with him as he doforvos.—l am, &c. J. H. DEKVERB.