TALK ABOU'T TOWN.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 59, 16 November 1878, Page 2

TALK ABOU'T TOWN.

•• Tli-mv’s a cliit'l anmiip: ye takin’ notes, And faith prent them.” Them arc judges and judges, hut for an upright independent jmhjy, who does his duty without fear or favour, commend me to the Samoa native maL,dstraU;. Final, alias Mo>es Roberts, alias McLeod. alias live natives, for assault, heard before Kinai and Ivutele. native magistrates, heard at the British (’onsnlam on the Nth instant, .Indue Kinai. aider hearing

■'•iil 11l- inil L, .IU IU" i JII.U. «uu;i Hi auu; \■ >n .b*-rx ■ . fe; v. u 'll u". y.Mir r.vi fives to punish me. lam afraid y v will cans.' me to t ■■■ j in person ymir iinno vance. ihetu to on ■of the pn-ouers, . who, hy the ivay, recmilly received three do/wn lashes by order of I[. hi. M. Consul for insulting British subjects, he remarked: Your father is a bigger man | than J, therefore 1 dare not order you ■what t oil deserve.’’ Then to the prisay, do as you will, I belong to theiroverniuent. lam a magidrate,'and must 1 sentence you to something; I’na, I'etii, Toseu and Gugii will pay >ls ear-! , and ' Masugu Is not this a Daniel come to judgment ? ’ In early days this "Judge" Final was a 1 washerwoman, —no, 1 I**■ _' hj - hou .is pardon. a washerman laa sauna ; ;:.ai i " he went olf to ships, took away the men's dirty clothes, when washed return I a portion of them, charged an exhorl.bau! ’ price, and swore that he had retime i i the same numher he had reeeived. Gaining experience in the free and easy 1 ways of Jack ashore he invited parties of sailors to his house to a little iSuuday 'J dinner. The unsuspecting mariners put * on their best “shore togs,” anil repaired 1 to the house of their Samoan friend ex--1 peeling to have a “tucker” of native 4 food: hut the upshot of it generally was that they had to “shell out” and supply food for their quondam host, and yd t course grog followed. If they returned :1 to their ship without the loss of their ■ s loose cash, hlaek-cloth coats or hat - i hey ■ w. I d lucky men. Final’s rapacity ‘ for i his kind of work was duly recognised ' by the Samoa “Government” who to. 1c 1 him into their sendee ns policeman. Jiy degrees, he was made a member of the e l>’aipule, afterwards elected asa’J'aimua, - and at present sits on the Samoan juc’ii, eial bench, and is universally considered o one of the best men in too so-called Samoa “ Government.” e The advertisement which appeared in * last week's Times annonneing a sale hy private contract of certain goods and y chattels at Fasitouta has created quite a sensation about town. It was not gone- * rally known that any one of our upcountry squatters possessed so ranch su--0 portions property to dispose of, as the ad1, verliser evidently has got. On making - enquiries from Ids agent in (own, W. .*, it. would seem thrift —-in consequence no 1 doubt of the limited space in the mlvcre tising columns of the Times,—not one- !. fourth of the preporty offered fer dispoI, sal, is mentioned in the advertisement. * Only one-thiisl of tin* numW of lime i trees is mentioned, white nothing is said I of a large store, 7S feet hy SI feel, filled .. with kegs of salt salmon caught in the t mountain lake hy the proprietor and Ids , line men, Numbers of offers have been , sent in dining the week to the agent, I and I understand that a very long price ■ has been offered by the Kara t’lnh for all the dry kava. which exceeds by many

(mis the number advertised, X• >t 1 1 iiilt short of n personal visit will convey nn adequate idea of the value of the estate, containing ninny hundred acres, well watered by a large fit's’ll water lake, innumerable natural springs, and two wide running streams nil abounding in tisli The enterprising proprietor is . reetiug : three-storey house with stone foundation and verandah all round. The house is: to be furnished in a style of luxury and elegance not t-> 1.. . lin the South j ■Seas; while the ami.Ale propriet or and his charming daughter will, I teel -ure, use their utmost exertions t • make their glints feel in every way at hj me. The eotton, tobacco, indigo anti eoc »a-tree plantations are. lam to ? d, worked l»y several hundred Hn * !•' . i 1 : nile - ic supcr\is! >ii of tie* * daughter, who n v .' hj time to d > he hj _ a I estaUesan: -el ! \y\\\ \ - ■ ,> ’ dm •-/, -V | open lions*- welc-mm ;u.*y mv n.receive from the proprietor and ids hoimey I but pleasant fiuh'iv. In aw« ■!*•!. a!i the luxuries and j . nn. . n‘ - o; m I ’.n high life will pi -bauly tie in el witn in tins charming island home. Tim proprietor, who i> known among his more intlnmte friends as " the * Vuumodoiv,” is quite an historical character, as he claims t> he the first man who earned the American Dag to Ivig'aml. May lie live still many years longer under ilie shade ot the Star Spangled Manner I

. 1 j Jake the proverbial weasel, the British OmMil is not often to he caught asleep. ( i Bui 1 think he niii't have had tony winks j more man n>u;d «*ll the «*Lli .n-'caiit. Xhe .dawn of day broke at about, its usual ■ ! lime mu tie* anniversary of the birth of i the heir-apparent to the Lngiish Crown ; but the dawn of recollection of this tact did not break upon the mind of the Queen’s representative until nearly ten o’clock, if the proof of this is the fact , that until that hour had arrived the Consulate Hag was not hoisted to the breeze. Talking about flags, lam glad to see that the British Consul has got a new flag to replace the old one which, from the looks of It, might aptly he said to have “ braved a thousand years. There is “a duel” in London City ' ‘‘fakin’ notes” concerning the* various I charities of the City Cuilds, and it is ex- • peeled that when he prints them it will ' lu* hot for some of those who are now ' feathering their ne>Js very comfortably. More power to the ohiels” elbow, j Cvun..