LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 41, 3 August 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Tim hull of the easts* TsainTiii Less, ss she new fee on the reef st Pane Page, together with her gem, sachem, he., win be sum at anetma, to-day at baMnmst tea by Messrs. B. W. Qurr sad Ob. A notim appears ia our advertising eolumos mate hall will be given at Mr. Dseker's Heeal this «*ening by the petty omesrs of HI OMs. Rophie. We vsdsretand met the sphmdM bend of the skip will he in susndaam, and we saffiipam a veryplmsumUs eeenmgfs eikimsat. The Vies-Ooc»uI for the Uaited Statmmnst IwVekada very dimceh work out out fot-brmm easlmrouig *■»— ■■!■>■ L« cjsa. _: ♦ n _. » %*m mOumj laW eTTtslimtnll of the United etams to dmtJsmusai who suersa| misatlm in saviag the lives ef melasma- aad smemel the U.B. warship* la the herriesue ef March last Proouoat denjandu have been nude st the Consols to for s sham ef the money hy natives, who had no right whatev o tomsjtoe eiaim, and it required all Mr. IBeekloek'. ssperience of native eharsHer and aeqaaintan«w with the chiefs and people to determine who were dessrv-ine-of remuneration. Hsppoarsfmffl aUwe eaa loatn that Mr. BlasktoiA hes none wendem ia uadiaa out the mem aaenroeng peroone. anu easnurstag tho money la smnrassei whn the ordsrsof the Pissidsnt &l the Uaited

Ths efhooner Lnoi*e. Captain Baha, milled from Lane*. Tamils, en Wedseedey hot Mr, Mmoosth. of the iwae st met Toeoney, me that three w*eV-var w*re la Pago most likely B.M amjm Opd. Bgerla. sad Liesrd. H* fkfShlp Orkmdo bed ant arrived aihea me bout left Boom nesfvos of Lsoae reported that e nmnV-war had baas sifhmd to th* northward, hot the Ohptaiaefths Louies, knows oelama of H W.Q woo htwy*b? tS* UJB* Adsms, fmm Benetoto. No sign as jet efAo aashem. ens) sbtp. due at Vssnmv hVls now aheut 1M deyeont fmm PMlsdetnhia. By lsemt adviam fmm Tntuila we loata fhesn aaajkatoa, who ngisaanl she Lsmw Say rnanat ia that hasmf on very lamidnl fa aaenna; rewveats to their eeeaaar re> BgJsnT aamMan aaa. ana one smv aassaVhnsßsy ssssssiAa eCiaall she nsaaaatoaMaimSMJwwMo^

uaaejaYAtttoadatfthereeult. We ara oanodto ototo that tba priMiit of the eoneart, HMtkN with * donatiim «Tlt Vdwlk ■awdtonny the Governor, are mom ia thn bands of the Leedon *flo»fonari»* in Wwn, for dattribattonto. the torn of nod to any ■ll—Uiiii MM, without regard lo eithei wood or petty. A number of Saaweaa. mom oad femal* hare bean lately brought before htetoaV* Megietmtee, charged with drnnhonuo**, and wow eontoaoed to wet* oa tba Mad*. Thee* people anal have obtained Ha Itouor from whit* men, either direotly or indirect!/ Warniaga have bono repeated!* given to foreiga leeManai thai the telling or Srlac ot dria to native* i* agaiaat the w, tut otOl it it almost barefacedly oarried on. Tba aamea of ajaajaj white men who ara WHwH to bo gutltjr of thio|totpin>bU practice hut. baoo .üb- • nttted to en, and wo promiee that if wo find seJteient proof of thoir guilt, wo will give publication to thoir name*, aadriak the consequence. Tt i* notorious that both foreign labour and Bemoan* oaa —tilt obtain bottle* o* gin for a dollar porbottto. Bathaaa this immana* profit on wholesale eoot to the inducement fur uneurauuiou* paruoaa to break th < law. rat endanger the peace of the community. A real gnod enahary work i* boiug petformod by native priaon labour, faatoafn'e polioa have had thoir priaoaera walking all hut week clearing off and burning the rubbish and 61th which baa been accumulating oa thai fm ashore for aoterol mouth*, emoting ! an offenofre odour all along our; ■treat. It ia not very creditable to our' towaapoapto that An> bnraan or tbia work aboaJd toll oa afatoafc. Wu attribute nothing to aappurt hie polios or fotd thoir prisoner*, nod ounjaoW that the work ot essaying the aataabnwa and sties* is principally far the b»u*Bt of foreign residents, and the pufcee patrolling the atroeto for thoir protection. It U only fair and jaet Wit they ahould contribute sometbiagr toward* defruyiogtho coat. We hare spoken to several eitisenn, who ara willing to subscribe, hut 4o not oare to take the initiative. If some of our buoinona nton would toko round a subornation Hat we ara eonfident a large ran would 1* forthcoming.