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Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 63, 4 January 1890, Page 1 (Supplement)

SB B'We»ite> ipoitoMawotko Utfadoea, and MoTISSoVW on*J»» no matter. wtdof waabw la lapUat mamar to H.M. OonouL with the remit UlatOaeAßoMWtfoiwOltrdtoßaboek to WaUbi lalaad, and totarn Ibo ranawaya a* kie earn eipeoee, or toe aaaoaea of the ohartatara, nnder a howl of aomrenatare.- On Captain Boo) ilaolnln to oaoferm to the Britieli Cooaul'a nnreaeaaablo demand, the Eton of.no tm»e were retained by Conoal. nod Capt Bona left Apia Hafbowr wilhool nam, in wMoeqnoaro of wbieb Captain Row will bate to aabmlt to great troabU and iuosarenioaot oa roaabiag a Cnetoma j>ort of Mow. Rootlemea, we all know that the Oritiah Cooaul'a action ia the mat* tor ia abaurd ia the extreme. That Oapt Sow abould bo made to auffer bf law for hie miafortune ia quite too ridteuloua. No ebaryn waa leid agaiaat him, and yet be bed t ■ »übniit to lauab inault neraonally, aud hie vaaael do* , tained ia port unnecoMarily. to aait tho whim of aa official, who, from tbo greet altitude of hi* inteiliKßuee, con-•.Mltti-Hl, lam u4l, tbo coae to be one of piracy on the high aeaa, end there* forn of isU»f national aignifiaanee. The nutivoa reforr' <l to are. I beHeto, at ill in Samoa, and living iu a paaonful aud ooatautou conditioo. ca3S or r«-r. PIWIH Csipt. Oibh* it Bin-tut of the *• ho »nf r Taviuai, and, un hi» l*-t tripto r-nmoa. , about a muuth •inoa, his pap«ra rem i held by th • Rritisli (.Wnaul, ami hi* Teasel detained in port for several days alter she was randy f«r o-a, on the \ pretence that tho mate held a certificate aa pilot for British abipe io tkaioua , waters, wbkh, ou his roTirojr frtim that position he had failod to return to the British Consul. As his appointment was publicly cim.elm.l, no one can auppone for a wooieut that the ' mate referred to h«<l any object in retaining the pilot ccr.iii'Mto It could Im of no u*i to him bm unte uf a f« reign - Koi"g ship, and wlmn he signe/l on tho Tuviuni's ankles be would, no doubt hare gireo up tho unrtihvute if ho had been tuked for it, Itut that is not tho aue«tioa. Why should tne maatar aud oiruere of the Tariuni bo prajodieed for nuth a paltry matter? Iboao aetio«'«. an I all su«h a* tboao, di«inou.<t#»t'- to th>- intelli* gaaos of all people We*sod with only as arotaga amount of eomnion at-utu that the British <-'on»al is etthur pn» foundly ignorant of hitdiMi.-», to which I incline, or dosireo to e*ena.-e arbitrary powore. OAM OV AiCXAKUER < Hrjr.UlOV. Alexander Cwi/lton, a fiiitinh m\>jeot, was arrested by the offlw-r of H.HM. High Com mission' r's Court, aasiated by tho native police, without nay warrant hointt productnl, and. na I undotstund, on a civil matter. Thi ii« surely en exerVrise«f nuuiwful authority, and wants adjusting. cask or ciuians eyi-rahd. I em informed that Charles Everard, a British aatijeet, applied P> tho Doputy Cojnmiasioaer for aeaistancw to somo wages, which, he ht.it' rl. wore owioc to him bp an Apii in ivhaot. Tho Deputy Commissiouet icplii-1 that ha could give him uo MsisU.vo, nI ho (Evcrard) ought to iiave obtained bis tuoimy l>.fore doiug his work. Tbia case naoJs no eommmil of wiuj. lAoK Of k VI BAV. I uuderatand that Kai Bau, who i ? a British eubjcC, or under Briti»a protectioß, applied to tba Hopu'.v I'miimisaiouer for assistance in recovering an amount owing to him hy a' warship lu Apia Harbour- Kai bau w*s informed that tbo Deputd.lgommiseionor had nothing to do with Ufa ship iu question, or with Kai Beu. I say that if the Deputy Commitsinner hae no interest in a British subject, what is ho bore for ? CAOB OF HAhI.OV. This waa nn applieation hy B irron, a British subject, to tho Deputy Commissioner for a writ of sum moos agaiust another British subject, to reeover a debt. Berroo, ha vine no money to pay for the writ (2a. Hd.). was refused. and ordered ona of tbo office. This an/ appear to some people aa iaiigtufioaat matter; ball eUIm that there is a groat pndoipw involved. There ia ft paoeiaioa for oxoaa of this nature. It la quite anraaiooable that a maa caaaot ana throocb the Curt for a just debt baoaaos he U analde to pay tho email foe required for a writ of aammnai, to aoasael the defaadato to raaisolay to eaado paysseat of Joat U a patina fa 1