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Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, 2 November 1889, Page 3

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§*od idea of the iWw Ml wwieetloe, w far as wfcwi, writ notidugbul tit* end Co. in coul unc-1 Mao vhh MaArthnvandCo. nd Moon {•I Ob.(lkua ii ths book Ufon UK-). I win (kmUla this |«UM|r: “ Tho tilwi Of tbo Bofli'h lioiinm, i lu i lljMillwr Mtl t’o. is the mo 4 Inpattowl.' Thin km its hxedqu iiit-ra at Mpinil Now Zeeland. Next to tMt howto that of Pritchard Co. (! ! ! ) moat tw um d. hi' Udnbilit Mxt item, end miirrcl •t tbo lumlim and o nle-eention •bowed by ihm ** innweita Al rout. - ’ lb homo govern moot lipn o \«e taken into considers li< nk'iotii rn an iMtorwti (onlyf) in tbo sun'wn Island*, and lonmdured it a duty In pioicct (hh-j these iutensta aa much »<• possible i moderate, eh ?), but hj a also alwava I tonoured the just claim* (hie ', of *.ih«r j nations, and fiaa never iiiiildluil with the independence •>( the Samoans.’* j Having jnat arrived in Apia Inst I Fobr uanr, 1 um unable to comment ou | this. Hither tliia statement in. to >ny be leaat not the •.a-muce of vera •iu, ir elan the Havoa Tiitsa and ether tapers and their np.-n(n grossly mis-, npraaenti d thn (ti-.in.uß and tlicjr ** carryings-on ” in 8«moa. Thsr ) not want tie worl l. Oh, ( no! Only the j-e<*ple in ii! llere’d aa example : “ In pro ecting the Ger* mans (from wlmt it ««< n<>t only nunesuary to secure tlieir lives nod extensive property, but protection hud to be extended ad’t hat- 1 ho fWoa of the German trade, (make room for the BD. and P.O) Ust lilted no j injury. The’s was alvrnvs dmpr that another nation might pirn i>,s Puenoa over the homo government, end induce the labor to leg I inrusinn* which must injure or mnihilato (to:-- ! men trade, (dear as mud i This i inigl t Its brought by tie* laying I on of dis)Wt>|u>riinnate luxe?, ly the foruiutieu of trade mouo|*oi t-s. {>'y whom ?) fen, >n«-h mi injury c mid he done, as line hum ene else.« here, by laws for the work the -fon-ign labnuieis. For inttKiue, it it .uere enacted thnt tin so laltonr- r.s should get tent daily (liny |/«t •• omeny. nr) tv which they nro not aci-n-lono-d to ill these isl.iniM, Inlioor wool.l i'l-iuin* ao dear there would he uo profit in it.” Tide is followed by a description of tbe t-vonls during t’ol. Stcinl-i-r.-ei’i. lime, which a< ems to he. «»rr»* t Then we fled an nssmtie.i, vhn-h “ takes the bisouit” for audacity.” The ('ononis who. on SM-otinl of g.tul distance* wad poor eommunh at ton, were left almost entirely to their own resources, end in their seal took a of lee only of %he business interests of those belongTug . to Uudr’ euunlries. and did not ennaider I lie just demand* of other imlions nor the relation of these nations to their own country, favoured in a most nliMirHp'tl -us rn,inner tli» agitation for annexation of the islands, ns did Graeubanme and Griffin, without —yea,-and sometimes against—the direction of their Government.” How about Knapp* ? Now wanes n stunner t The tralian Odoninl Government (which f) hue always bed an Inclination to look upon aP the. South Sen Arakipelagp as the natural p.nperty of the duq«m Australian colonios.” Aitm this twd or three passages sre' dev<4»d to the re* vision of events during Mr. Weber’* wa C VIOAIII Tbe third asrtlon of this pamphlet opens with a description of Malistoa, la which it Is asserted that the Httet was addicted 16 dfuskeaaaaa, that he could Ml mdrfmto himself fa* th< t&isrtts&iz&.s of the Oa—nli. the t be turn a double■B »Oer

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