THE SAMOA TIMES. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1889.

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 42, 10 August 1889, Page 2

THE SAMOA TIMES. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1889.

Tn currency question is again being brought promiaently before the public. Shortly before the native wai the subject was engaging

publk attention, and numerous] attempts were than made by ansae ©four business people to get rid of ; the coinage of a South American Bopablic, with whom wa have had no wwastion. and which coinage

doss not represent the oosaaasfciel value repreeeated on the face of It . Sines thai time foreign joanaustss > and native wars have boon too absorbing for ohr peophi to devote much of thair tamo to the correneyt last it has ataman been a verv tnaJhaawnw essaaant in our com m * BBaasasa* war aarwgn rsßsaaawa. a yajtatailliinsl Howl lost Outlay y JtMhaaaUj;ajaia>emßß]BifJh*t ampohntad mmmmmnnst mr uav HtJMMhle Chilian are only ■»' ski* ■ pht ouam a EB BJaa,tfjd BbL* a^ug4m2t ataV t^n BBBmaBBUUBamaBamBBBt

ef to taadara and etnera \3 mIM to mAwm wmi finatr to tne eaten.** or el**n>n«a,*nd It anoweradnU (to) ymvpeeae tc tun. Ow nnvtonvs **an to those day* had little dtteehy to oktototof foreign draft* at m( **ore than tan par nantr mtofii *o the HMHan raoney fUriy *n«wer«d *JI the pupo*** of ■ngHeh or IJmnrtoin enrraney i bmw Urge unanHHa* ef Bonth Aaoriwa doiUn,pevehaeod at nodi let* vain* than Amorknn dot**** wore Imported Into thawkkodi. Of late yea** Chilian money haa gradually fallen below Ha tow valve, and great vexation and bnonvenienee oontineeily oocoie to tor oJtoid* and other* to arranging for 9m payaaent of foreign MippUee.

Drafts now are not obtainable less than 40 par cent, and it is considered a favour to get. them at thai> and we are now giring $7 Chilian for ail gold pioce, and rumour* an abroad that a few of oar merchants who hold large quantities of this kind of money, having a foreboding that the objectionable eoinage will be aoon driven from Samoa, are prepared to oflbr even more than

40 per eent for English or American coin. The only partin who derive any benefit by the preeent currency are the two great firms ia Samoa or their agents, who are almost the only cash purchaser* of copra from the natives, who receive Chilian money in payment, and the copra I exported ia as good as money ia payment for supplies. Bat our smaller traders have not this ad van-

Uge. They have either to hold their dollars if they emit, or purchase their material or trading goods from the two firms mentioned in Apia, and, with one or two exceptions* are debarred from direct connection with colonial. European, or American merchants, except through a second party. All this adds to tlonatel y increased coat to the two: ■tuner. The aatlyas themselves mo considerable aadmrers, the Bamoana bettering tint wham they gat l| coats s pound fct their mm thaw

anJajL and mo doubt (may are* but they cannot aaa why they have to amy aw pax cant, anore fhr thair oevboammm men beHovo that the pilUatthj rata of lilllllgi wiM hototo ilia away the eauasai cutvemmy •* wnmtea, and even if the rates wore still higher boideaa anight than find it to thair mam aaamaWl meant JhWLmnmtaalhßßßßalamnu i mil to the anumtry Hiniisaliil Ouf ImiHmf fame arc little hatter placed at areasnt than their leant* aaaamhauaa. fhana the avtoaaaal ammnmmnnnwwmnnmn ,»■» emamananami article of eoanamrus batsmen tto aaAaVlamnaa -» eammataW H emnmammaweL ' ■aWTVaI mmwV WamMuT aaama«n*wam% emu^anrnWaPnT* amamTlV aaOamnmate Waaaal 'SaV ensaßßmaaV

amdttljMMuew IM* wean wwomi mv ojmv oounw nana* nanny eanmwnwar* MMMd. Thio I* MtO MhjMt M b» tMM M) fait ksfctMMM MMf. U mml be workod whA o iktiwl MMM 111 111111111. Mil 111 llWllll MM WMM Mam fTOOi wfll Mk tttt. It U JMt pOMrtai* mm* Utile ommmYm win nMB na*nunßu>a* em*j*MM VMMWMMnjM WO** Mj H?M3 lo the mmmmm brbuMhokMn of Chilian money, bottom will be riMwrilood by the nnjority, Mil should not be allowed to influence their netioM