THE SUFFERING SAMOANS.

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 46, 7 September 1889, Page 2

THE SUFFERING SAMOANS.

MjbV'IJHI AT IIUU9I uSESStsttt i tindaynaayauamaaVofiaaWoual oWaate aaaJLalifa tka Tasja Hall. 14. far tho nanoaVol oUoting 'a sou!- . mkteste rais faads for tho roliof of F thaatarnag aattnaof Samoa. Than • won proMoioo tho platform Mr. M'. i MlUaa (Cbtenial Troasurar), tho Bar. WTa oSaohlatoa, Msasrs. Q.Vf. Qrif- , fia(fimarlwa Obaaul). Thomas Pratt. , Masftay. tao Rot. Mr. Austin. Iter O , Pratt, Bar. Or. Jofforis. and othars , iatetattad la tho mooomoat Mr. M'MiLL&y, ia moving tha first , malatma. apotogissd for tha abamos , of 8b Hoary Parfcaa and his honourahlo oailoigus. tha Hon. Ijanial : COonaor butthepolitkaldangorsigaal had ban run up, audit bohoood thorn towatohthssitedaL nohadhoworor to taks tbotr plan aad appaal to ths 1 sympathiM of tho poopla of New South Walot, oa bohalf of a ran of oomparatin nngo* who, howavor, in tha midst of a terrific soone. and in ths proisncs of thsir o rn snemin and without distinguishing friend from f»s had riakod, aad in w.mn iastanoss Inst their lirn ia nviag Christian individuals. In his opinicn tho titno when thoy should bars strusk tho oord of sympathy wu whsa thsy first heard of that terrible disastar. than should thn aan booa a man mnting of the sitissns of Sydney ; and the first ship 1 that went down then ehould have been 1 la'len with thousands of pounds worth of provision for than bran but star*iag people. He had mu«h pleann 1 ia moving: '< That in view of ths gnat discrete prevailing in the Samoan Island*, in consequenn of ths recent ' oonetrous civil war and hurrinne, this meeting deems it expedient te devise aomo aan of affording practical aid to the starving people of those islands." The Bev. Mr. Anna, lately a missionaiy in Samoa, aanndod the naolutioa. aad ia dorag so gun » short history of tho late war than, showing how that had teaded ia a great meae- "»■ to bring oa the present state of afsirs-tba whole of tha men having goae toth) war, and leaving their cultivations anatteoded to. The hurricane of March laet also destroyed a large number of trees, thus prennting than from preparing their winter st« k of food, which they csile>l " tnnesey," ' which was propasad from the !>readfruit Irees, most uf which had h«eu destroyed. Although some snpplias had been sent dowi to Simoa thaee wero principally for the training rtatione, aad after all thet was only a drop in tho l.ueket. The Australiana u Christian men were Itouud oa tho ground of common hitroAiiity to coma te their relief. And it must bo remembered Uiat their suff«rinxe had not bna brought about by their otn aaworthiassM. If the Sarooane had ban left aloe two or three years agavwith their own king, and sup* fOtebd by tho three power*, then vjsjsJd aan bna bo and for the appeal they wan now making. Tho spnkn wan oa to gin a few exaawhw of tha bravery aad awaerosity of dus gnat people which had oome under hie own personal observation. He* oouoluded by autkiag a forcible spaeall to bain ia nviag then pnpl* fail thsir present horrible position - aad thus fuMI owe of tho greatest of flh.i Mgatej *ahnity Tha Bev. Mr. FaaataxToir mond tho ant rnntatioa sad in doing so he aaM that help speedily gina wn twin given in a can like f£l pmnt. Thoy thmsteie needed atoantaearry oat tho molution when aad just ban passed. H*moved—' Thatthiamart fcg forthwith awect a eommittee for tks purpose of organising the reHef nwisnnalil ia the first raaoluuon." The Bev. O. Pbatt. who had lived eanag the natives of the interior for no last fifty yean, asooadod the mo- i tin Tho raeotetion urns carried Tha Bev. Dr. Jamais moved—"Thatfail powers bo given to the ' entarttn.to deal with the faads I nisod anordiag their own judgment." < Tha nation wn sssosdsd by Mr. | ThiMiftiiiif itoiliiaaaaimoaaly. i Mr. eaxma at mo time had the i I States 1 ie there I P natter. I we their | •w» aw i awteaw I ' najaa* re

It was uaaounoed that up to we weseat ame a nam af £HaiadeWa veraatafwy snkecrtosd ambus to fcdeJajtteanatieg Ia addition to thfa Mr. M'Mfllsn donated 4650, and Mr. It O. Tanfak, £lO !•>. Mens. Kewalnki guarantood £4O. proausiog t» cite a ooaonrt in aid ef the funds. The meeting then terminated after a vote of tnanxs to the chairman. A tekavnuu racirod st Auckland, dated Sydney. August 33, safe ■ A mooting of the Kamoan JJoKif Oununittss, which has beo<i formed in this city, was held to-day, whea- it was decided, in view of the now* received from Auckland that thore was no fear of a famine in Samoa, to await definite information before taking action.