THE SAMOA TIMES. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1879.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 68, 18 January 1879, Page 2

THE SAMOA TIMES. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1879.

At tho present duy. tlturc me two powerful agencies at work which threaten to greatly increase the uniformity which is '. gradually creeping over the. world. There are an immouso number of places where an Englishman would have to rub his eyes pretty, hard before ho could jkti suade himsolf that he liad left his native land. And if the term Anglo-Saxon heused, this area would he very much increased. In a word, Anglo-Saxou civilization is ndvaneing with giant strides, . and is marked by a dull uniformity, a characteristic by no means mcturesmie. absolutely irrepressible, : aridfluds his way to places where he is no|i warned—,a fact which the South T'i\< iiic will testily to. And he is ably backed u;,. by his fellow-countrymen, tho East Indian ryot. The latter has emigrated by thousands to Trinidad, Jamaica, Natal, and tub. Gape Ooleny; he has comnieucod to take possession of Madagascar, emigrating from Mauritius, i.nd is now. tdvanciug upon Polynesia, Arrangements are being Juade to send him to tlie Sandwich Islands, and within a few months. the first instalment will have landed in Fiji. The Indian Cooli.o lins many of tho qualities of the Chinaman, but he lacks, the power of combination against tk;j white man which causes the Chinese popiv lation in foreign countries to be hated and—in the mutter of comx'tition in business-to be dreaded. §T Trinidad, where plenty of Crown Inn.l is available, the coolie, upon completion of his service, but eoldom return! to India, and generally becomes a mode! db'ws and ratepayer.

.Ie pamwJHH the knack of aeeuuiulating j uroperty in whatever line of bnsin nt. r-, :unl is not Bt roving thrift less felo\v |{kc many ol tin- inferior raws whom i ie wipes oat Polynesia Las a gr« it 'uturu before her, but ere the development if her natural resources take, place, ,ab or musl In- i icured in large and certain quantities, and the choice lies between Chinese and (.Wio labour. The majority prefer the latter for many wellknown reasons, For several reasons too there is a greater probability of the latter rather than the forme! coming to Samoa. The waste lands of the earth are, towards the close of the nineteenth cen-

Mwry, being opened up; and the two agencies which, by the beginning of next century, will have very c lr.iderablv con-

tributed towards their reclamation ami development will be those above alluded to —Anglo-Saxon energy and capital, and East Indian, labour and industry.

Thk Impbbul German Consul,—VFe are glad to welcome back to our midst the Imperial German Consul, Th. Weber, Esq,., who returned in the German war ship Ariadne, on Thursday last. Mr. Weber has been on B cruise for the last three months amongst the South I'neitie Islands, we believe, upon official business, and returns to us well and hearty.

OiiniAitv.—Those of our readers who have had the pleasure of the acquaintance of Captain Hasenflug, who commanded the German ship of war Augusta during her stay here, will he sorry to hear of his death. His demise took place oti' Malta, while on the passage home.

EXTRAOEDINARY RECOVERY OF SICHT. —The wife of our respected fellow-citi-zen, Captain Turnbull, has recently recovered her sight, of which she has been deprived for some fen years, in an extraordinary manner. We are not quite able to explain how Mrs. Turnbull became blind, hut from what we can learn it was i caused by some internal complaint from which she periodically suffered. Whenever attacked by this complaint, her ryes became very much inflamed, and (In- sdghl affected, until finally a thin skin grew over the eye, su that shecouKl distinguish nothing hut the difference between night ainl day. This continued till about three weeks ago, when the sufferer, fortunately \ye wii! Uavo to say in this case, fell down live steps of the stairs, coming with a heavy thud upon the Hoor. To iho delight of the sufferer and all her friends, sbo ohsi-rve.liii.on awaking on the following morning that she could sec better than she had been able to do for many years, and her sight has been gradually improving since the date of the lucky fall. Whether it was the shock to the nerves or the sudden concussion that. caused the removal of the film we leave to the medical faculty to decide, hut we publish the.se facts in the hope that they may he of service to other sufferers from a similar complaint. Members of the medical fraternity are at liberty to examine the ease, and make any enquiries necessary. Mrs, Turnbull is about fiftylive years of age, and usable to see almost as well as could he expected of a person li'r age. Mtjrdku of Cicmis MolLer.—Many of our readers who were acquainted with Captain Charles Moller, who has been trading to our port for several years in the Helena, Flirt, Meg Merrilies, and other vessels, will be sorry to hear that he has been murdered by one of his own traders. A fidl account of the sad occurrence, as taken from the New Zealand Herald, will he found in another column. Tile murderer, RenntOl,arrived in Samoa from Auckland, by the Active, in the hitter part of November, J. 577. Jle eatuo here in search of employment, ami appeared to he a respectable, well educated person. Having failed to obtain employment in Apia, he was returning by the Active when he met Captain Moller at Knsitootai, where he was engaged to take charge of a trading station on one of the Line Islands, The murderer has been brought up at the Auckland Police Court, but the matter being out of the jurisdiction of that court the prisoner has been remanded to .Fiji, where ho will lie brought lip before the High Commissioner's Court, and will he tried under the Western Pacific "rder in Council of 1877.