ANOTHER NATIVE AFFRAY.

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

ANOTHER NATIVE AFFRAY.

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This is now the third time within tha last few months that Barnoans have been attacked by black l>oye io the employ of the Gorman firm. In two «*««•#. at Sogi and Vaitelo, the result hue been fatal to two Samoans, one being shot dead with a shot gun. and the other hacked with a knife and stabbed with a spear in such a manner that h«> died u few days >iftowards. The'black hoy concerned in the Bogi outrage wan tried U-f'ro the Oermaa Gon*ul, and sentinc-d to three months' imprisonment We refrained from commenting at the time nn what appeared to us the exceed ingly light punishment inflicted in this ease, which woe olenrly one of deliberate murder, or, at least, innn ■■laughter of the first di-gree ; but we arc very much afraid that the lenient judgment thus given han had a good deal to do with the agKreasiro action* of tho labour hoyn in tho two subsequent occurrence* Punishment is supposed to be meted nut as a preventative or warning to other probable lawbreakers, and not as revenue or satisfaction ftjr the orime eomoiitted end the punishment that would he sufficient for that purposo amongst the people of a highly civilised community would be totally iaadequaie when applied to a semi barbarous roee like the black la hour boys. Strong measures should be taken to oompel plantation managers to adopt the legitimate and sensible sot |M of complaining to their Consul against Bsmosn or otbor trespassers. MaKetoa Matunfa'e Governmeat are quite strong enough uad perfectly willing to punish any Samoan found trespsasiag on any white man's property. Why then resort to such measures aa thaw adopted at Yailele, measures almost sure to load to disastrous results ia tha present, and the future oonssquences of whieh it ia net difficult to formes.