correspondence.

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correspondence.

i Wm y"i'. * —' — i billing tu y{ ve i UNr rtfoii to ■ . MtMftt exttstiatioti or iutortxt. but we & WJA tt.to bo duitiuotly understood that we ! Our j W■- Wmm pusiex e**ut«i will be found in T Our local or editoriiu co>umun. m &> THE EDITOR OP THE SAMOA TIMES. I K V. your last issue J noticed I la letter signed " Wide-a-wake," I KWh'ich "appeal's tome rather to rcRfl&ct on the American Government ■br riot taking some action towards K doing goo-J* at Ifoleulili. I would Bot haVe taken any notice of " VVide-R-rWake" if In; hail only told the j Hrbole truth. I can refer " Wide-a- i trader (if " Wid#- j Ka-wake" is not the trader referral ■ Kto) flying another flag, who about j la week previous to the 13th March | M had mwe " gin and other kindred ] ■"stuff" than the trader referred to, "by " Wide-a-wake." If he has not sold or given any to the natives. , he most have drank it himself and j been the cause of making the night hideoua.ajaa disturbed tie peace of his owti immediate neighborhood. S, He reminds me of a rititfi out in the l?- who when he liad ! r drtnßßHta barrel of ' Old Rye" < ijsed t*» go 6ut' " into' U&Jropda, ayi have -a. good j nore drtnlph men mocl&ng j Trader* w|»b live in gla*w i should not throw stones.— J NOT WIDEA-WAKR Hollow, April 12,1889. I XDITSK OF THE SAMOA TUIEB. j —The Kolnitehe Ze'Uung, a | Renal organ of the German { incnt, insists that condign | ncnt must be meted out to | nouns who took part in the j inutilities by which a number j man marines weru killed, at's right enough in a Geriint of view, but what about imoaus that were killed ? vere the instigators of the ■ Why, the Germans, who parties went to the Samoans oarkoess, on the quiet, and t to catch them napping, but d not. Then the.no wretches oans dared to defend themfor so doing. The German iment insist that condign ment must be meted out to moans who defended themPut the whole matter the ray. Suppose the Samoans ne to the Germans with rifles i and in , the middle of the rould the Germans have tried ud theinrelvc* ? Tea, they Then why blame the Sa—l am, be. Pan Play.