THE SAMOA TIMES. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect Am I." SATURDAY, MAY 18.1889.

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 31, 18 May 1889, Page 2

THE SAMOA TIMES. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect Am I." SATURDAY, MAY 18.1889.

NoW that peae« has beenMUblished bstween'tlfitWopartiee'of priocipeliy by the address of Admiral Rknberly, it Is.of. great Importance that no "circu instance even lot Jhe most wain*-nature, should mind. Mnta.w.ha* sxsxcised great, tact and jqdgment in controlling 1 the test number of his; Slower* UfpTM ****** *<*J»'|* kept 6000 p*>p% sb" wetf uSler, eommwd, more especially as they; were Ireqaeojsly..nearly driren to of • German. by, t mm> apt ■> m

them from taking terrible retaliatary ■lemwfrlia* the Senoanp aatre. tnoat be await jpf ffck, art now lp ***W tkef HhooMbaeareftiltodo aefhbw «fs allow to b« dope, *»&r m tbematNla or their eevvejrta «r* concerned, .to agitato the aativm The tragedy- of last Wednesday week wh«n on* of l^ataa&Vfollowers was shot and Jatatty wounded by an imported tabor boy, a aarvant of the German firm, u joat one of

those nerious circumstances that might again create an outbreak, and tho rumor becoming ,geoerel ihat .the manager of the German firm, near whose premises tho Samoan was killed, prevented the capture of the labor boy, who'was being arrested for the purpose of trial, has create*! quite a commotion amongst the natives, and which has been increased by the rumor that the boy was afterwards allowed to escape. If the manager 0/the rWreftfsed to givu, up the hoy Imttmujd at.{east have taken care he should be detained in safe, keeping' until he could be handed over to tho German Consul for enquiry into the whole matter, but the man has, according to Dr. Steubel'B letter, of the Bth inst. to Mataafa, escaped, and as a natural consequence the natrWs'are fully. impressed his escape has. been connived at; Considering the manner in which the natives have been treated by the Germans tliev cannot be blamed for entertaining such a belief. The manager of the German firm has taken too much responsibility and nleced himself in a questionable position in the estimation of nearly all the community. By what right did he attempt to prevent an enquiry into a case where a man has lost his lift. If the labor boy had received provocation for committing the terrible act the manager of the German firm should be the first to court enquiry, aad if die act was committed without sufficient cause the boy should unquestionably be placed

on trisl before the German Consul j on the charge of murder or manslaughter. We will not go to far as to My that the firm's manger was a paHy.to the boyajmcape, bat the natives wilUnrfe«bts(Hy have that irapresiionV Shortly after the ocourrenee Dr. Steube}, wrote to Matsafa. stating {hat,.the boy bad escaped, and also requesting that when be wts captured Mateafa should send one or two of his magistrates to investigate the ease with him. TheJboy has since been caught, as will oftseen by Dr. Steubile.lette.rof the 144b, whieh appears in another column.- '