BEACH-COMBINGS.

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

BEACH-COMBINGS.

ov MfclllMtl Wend ! Bat this tUS* the native, are out of it If war to threatening, dmUmt the (touM Finn or any of o»r onterpriaingcitiaena have any chance of making nor* aeoney by supplying arms to the combatants. There are no contracts hanging to the bow

dUpolu* Although Apia aces the oonwMivasent of the quarrel, the boMtovw be Jbogbt out elsewhere. The ioWligeooe we giro to the world will, wo ore airaid, hove a pnmlysing effect upon oar eoaimunity. War again, yet no dollars flying about t War between two great Powers, commenced la Apia, vet in which wo oan take no hand! The news is indeed startling. Germany and Italy are at loggerheads. Angry words hare passed, Mows hnve been exchanged between representatives of the two great Powers. The Consul of Italy hw bean struck

whilst in hit official uniform by a bloated capitalist of Apio! Shades of Gorabaldi! Wo* ii for this tlio red shirts pou'ed out their Moid in their endeavour to free I taly ? i»'u\ Cavour schouie in vain ? Italy's official representative, is a» uniform, struck by a German! Ail Borne most ahuddor at the thought. Perhaps some of oar readers were quite unaware that such a mighty being as an Italian Consul existed in Samoa. But it is ho. lie is a man of moans and of mark. And also, as he has narrated to admiring auditors in the highways of beer

drinking, be is a man of muscle. He smote the Gorman in return. But the insult to the uniform mutt bo avenged. Rome and Berlin roust settle it!

There are other rumour* on the beach—of robberies and attempted ri»l»U;rios. Matofele nemos an especially unfortunate locality Jn this ivspeet. We do not i>elwv« in all these outrage*. The lively imogination i»f the' stranger multiplies thorn. Yet if there were a few robberies it might more thoroughly impress our f ireigu population with the desirability vf toward the supp-rt of Mftl an fa "a police. Two or three of the lending firms have dono n«, tut it is a disgrace to the rest of our cit linns that they will not pay in proportiou to their moans fur the protection they receive. Apia without any form of Government at present is yet a model community, as far as law and ordei are concerned. Life and pio|wrty are safer here than in the colonies. This is owing to the conduct of Matoafa's followers and the impartiality of the magistrate he appointed to rule the attain of tie municipality. George Leapii. Bravo ! George. Wc wish you had power to fine the Germans who gallop along our streets on Sunday. Ae no one else comes forward in this matter, the Editor of this, paper undertakes to receive and acknowledge subscription front the white residents of Apia toward* the support of Mataafa's municipal officers. Send in your dopant QM;Of the moat inas*klflMtrea(a •M»d was bo*jFwt*nhefkdfca. Matafele. bajind bam*, oil bearing that the Oetwauflaf waste be hoisted over the laUrasrio—l Hotel. Mr. JtillaaThoasasaa an old tmveller £Ld,aodlojfc not ws*v»esa»ol* and oihanriaa Colonel do Oosilsgoa has been wry ffl this week, boa wears happy tosaykiiow bettor, sod can wreitJe with his work. IW prooseds of the sale of the Laneashirs Isms did not oovor ex pOsWOL

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