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Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, 2 November 1889, Page 2

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%slfc bees shown a fetter ro- • IppVnWimtiildficenfroma p iflUttunaa ia the JJnited Statea, "t fo be informed onmatter* f pfMuif; to 'Samoa: The nature of * F |i *afl, tie eltoate, productions, t IMeAir-a (native and foreign), \ Wmm of Government, and various I ■fetter* of interest to intending j ■flfceiv. Jhere have been several i jf ysjapUets published on Samoa i iWiaVeooJd have been-obtained by j and "which might bav» j f'lpakted to enlighten him on noma of < Wft aware that such inform*- ■ §■ «T Samoa by the outside - "i a not had every , iirdntMlation; but if the pamphpMgfct not have been able to get . jjtf|2/tho Information he required. • pOMbttoaatety for us our politioal i "*£*P* ruaaoare of ware and tribal i W&*m fcfct somber of years. Mid ejr oar foreign ran* £ jfclßMfcfcliK ejeiitalifa twfm iwttoaa fco JJi ■Palv ea *•• 'writer p Wl * hfetorv V^^ttfl^k^^ft^^tfM HSBBPBrT^"^rP''Tr'?' ■psggQp Sjs)SjOMßS>>° jfflm.j. rivalry <n we KbfAißal toßort of the to The BaLa> <

r**9a '«/ esantry ajn feyanf afc*nWSSepni S SSP SBSnW SSJS) SHeei swsat*-. lias remain to g«»w waad* »!• tsrj&eradane*, neither should thee* Wi m heldnek W twienwno, jjkf V dog in the r—■#>, wffl not eutHvate them mesnaifiHj* or allow other* to do ao. Many hundred* of small capitalist* irlMi''tfM4pri«itlr acquainted with th* exkanalv* tracts of virgin noil to tie procured in tamo*, and assured »l«o of the lun'thy climate of tlio wlandsiwotdd be indoeed to become Mtthnv, nnjd, with tV assistance of the modem improvement* in agricultural machinery, would in a few yearn placsV Samoa in the lend of ail other islands in the South Pacific aa a grower and exporter of all tropicnl productions. The expense *f clearing land in Samoa is comparatively trifling, and when cleared 'the solf Will not require m«mr c for year*, Our steamers and sailing ship*, which bring our supplies from the Aufttralicn onion ten will not then haye to leave in ballast We will he in a nneHtnn to export other produce besides copra, on which at present we ere ahsohitelydependtng, and now valued at no low a price, that the quantity shipped these lent few year* has not trfsen sufficient to rover oar expenses, or is it likely to advance inthe market Therefore I we must either increase the. quantity of copra for exportation or do what is far better—And some other substitute. We have a fortnightly steam communication with the Australian t*olom>*. and not one'of those steamers get a ton of return All the islands which are favoured with steam communication nm considerable exporters, tea, sugar, battalias, poaduts, oranges, arrowroot, and many other article* of produce are forwarded, regularly, while we lay calmly bach, receiving snpptic* and sending nothing, except hard eash. In return This carelessness should not be allowed to continue. If the native* cannot be msde to ■naV stand tho necessity of industry, and are content to cultivate aotte ; cnt only for their own nccossltie*, the other waste land* of th« Island* mosi he utilised by moit inrhi'srionja "people. Tf we mean 'ic keep pace with tho competition o other pfaeaa, n spirit of industrj moat also he encon raged ainnitg'l the native* tfcemselvra, a spiri l which*!* heppfJy *preadiug among* th* native* of Fiji. Tonga, ant I r*h*r totted* many of whom an now. oVpiaTtotl themselves. Manj I fcwign r»'tden<s assort that the na VNNk will never learn m hvbom th\* we Ifk-oasn m a mlstaki jfet hmenwva to wotk ha* novel ' mMVv* |*jm K n^ato*, jtf ■BMssSVW ii 9 aSM ox p»WP*v»jS| nsw psr gn&^OH

wsamt Him eww |»w» esse™ tt*j)|*jpMrth***n*wvaa\ and, with by receiving a fair education from th* wrrrkrm la- ff*"*fi tfvty will be better able to and maintain their individual independence. and thk will be further "advanced' by a more extended intercourse with the while man and more dvitiaotl law*. t