LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 53, 26 October 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

11 j Thk Tivoli lottery talcos place this , i vpnr 0:1 iMcem'pr 7. Wo understand , i tbnt the reason forth* *nrlv dra*in? li* on Recount of Mr. H. .?. Moors in- , j tending to leave hy the MaiJlont shout I th-< 10th December, on a visit to the ' • TTiiitod States. Mr Moors will pro- ' • 1-uMy he away three month*. ' ; Wearsvery nßi*e<T to give insertion ' Ito n letter from the l?«v. Mr. Newell in J ! explanation of the report which was ' indnstrioaely sorend in town hy the ' I «hipwi coked sailor*, (hnt they were not 1 • treated well liy the mifsinmrie* »>t 1 Mnlun. The ciilora acknowledge titer 1 ; w» e well treated hy the tiativeo ; and , j mn wo now iearn that there »«« onlr - , j native teachers nt Mnlnn while :h* j ahipwiacked mc»> were there, itii more . j . than probable the sailors could not 1 make distinctions. > ■ T"o Ttiari iteath* neeurre.l Amongst ( j the Herman wan of-war sailers ;>n I We.lnes.lav la«t. Thorn are still ' j about 2o aick. ao-no of whon n» Ik>t>«<a ' ' are held out for th»ir recovery. 'Tt ' , does urem apprising To tlin untiitia'ed ' ! how it is that »he t'lphie tould le ' kopt so persia'entlv here in the far* of 1 I ell this fever amonpet the crew. Wl-v , I not (jo to a elder ilimste* Even if- , I the fever i* not contagiosa the men , j should he sen* to a climate wherothav J I would have nt least a better chance of j recovering. The eapteia of theAnphle |' ] sursly does not imagine the United ( j (Hates would pick np and run [ away with it during the absence of the I 1 German- ship. c One bis of good has arisen out of i' the fever scare W week the removal < of the patient* from the hoildinjr that, 1 has dono duty a* the Oormsn ho*- , < pital for some years. Thia building • fis in the centre of the town, a large , j population, hrth native and foreign, is , in its immediate vicinity, and a school • ; within 50 yards of it* hack door. It ! is to he hoped that the German j , Consul will convert the building to ' some other to**. A much less vain- I - able ail* for a hospital can be obtained, ! on Gi-rmao land* far sway from the town. The locality selected for th* re- , 1 eeptionof ths pa isota from H.IG M.s. t Sophio is a good one, being exposed to j * Ithe trade wind* and is to leeward of - 1 the town. 1 j It is now seven mowtha since tbe dts- •jj 1 aarrous hurricane of March last, and as ! 2 i yet no eteps hure been takes to remove ' ' 1 any of the wrecked ships whieh ate : " I ob«tt uctinc ths traffic of the barbs)**, i " I The fauQ of th* Adlsr wnold not be it * ! the way of traffic, bat thst it lies ex» if, j aotlv in front the lover beaeou ltgh* ft (red). This light cannot hs seen bv ' f ths matter* of oar nameroa* amah j craft after dark, when they are off,? the paeiiags. and they hav* fo gii***!* 1 tksirwsy. The Trenton is in the way J * of oof boat trade ** th* ahips, and ah* , } atsa eo*rains • targe qaandty of hilg* * water, which is not sondueivs to us public health. j Jj Tb* man Wilsoa, who got hi* hip ' a joint pat out some six months age by « a fall from a scaffold while painting, hj is still a trvpplt, and it is Tary likely it a will be maay months before hs will « b« able In do say work. We under- w stand that th* Raw. Mr. Hills, of th* 1c London Missionary Seviety, has paid g Wilson's rent sad supplied him and at hi* family with food for nearly foor *| month*. Something should be don* « aaoara ea moated oa a rtteeyof araned m woold be abb to rsar ptfs sad poatsry, {■ and grow some food, and in » abort ai time Amy weald bs aMs to support' pi ! ||| a a|sm^*k}aß_pa

Last AMurday a disrate neeur>ed at ttatsntu Letwese Jaa. MeDoDald, lorutarty a trader at Tstuila, aod a <am..ss native, relative to •ewe wsgrs iue to the lattev. A fight took place between tl.i iu ia f:ont of the Mubonis ll>u4, and McHon-dd's clothes wtre tirn from his body. rl« then rti»h«d mtu his houae. and -•• .-.in« a revotrrr itatlsd i" pursuit »t site entire, vl < bi.l mi-aitirMo i': t auay. MilMiiM, a-ho w»a un lor the inltueaee af lienor, sot fitidinp the sAtive, thrwitoned r.r.atire woman \>y n.es«■■n* , u;: thnloalcd revolve- st lie*. wh»-n hj« vt.-n :.n>n A :- ■! down hv the thief Aai. <>u Tbutaday McDonald v/na tried brf<ne the Deputy Comnussionnr on three charges, one of assault against the native, one of indncently axposing his |>«tauii. and another "f unlawfully a lnnd<t-l revolver at the woman. Mr. Carruthere proaeeuted on behdf of the Crown, while MclK>nald was un !e----fen.U.!. On Fiidsy MiDunald was aentenced to tbreo rounihs' imprisooment.