CORRESPONDENCE.

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

CORRESPONDENCE.

Wf- are always willing to jjrivn insertion to letters of explanation or interest, hut wo "ish it to lie distinctly understood (hnt vc ilo not endorse the opinions expressed, or language used, ]jy out* correspondents, Our ideas of passing' events will he found in our local or editorial columns. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SAMOA TIMES, it. —Your la-st issue of last year contained true remarks in your editorial, it is impossible to please everybody in a community like this, so split* up in little “ factions." Cyril has had a long innings without any remarks being made by any one. " lalk about Town m Samoa is known to moan scandal mixed with satire and chaff yet i cannot help thinking your last issue is a ■' lectio " too hot on General Bartlett. lis true he is an American ; what of that i he is a gentleman and has no. principle of Steinborgor in him; he has been here hut a few months, and surely has too much sense to aspire to the I’romiurship of a country (which as you remark) is on the eve of a civil war. You say rightly, " let no foreigner interfere at the present crisis it is useless.

If a staple and sure Government i* formed on a solid basis, the severs] foreign Consuls, 1 am snra, will advise them in their laws and in the administration of justice. The Kings of Fiji and Tonga bud their ■• foreign " seen taries, hut no one even time bore the title of Premier, yet they had a strong Government and were able to enforce their laws. The Idea of a Premier in this divided country in the present times is simply ridiculous, and it is only wasting time and paper to talk and write about it. 1 am, SO., Ham ash Kc;<.-. Mutafcle, Jan. 14, 1879. [We are at a loss to understand what OUT correspondent is driving at. Ashe appeal's to know how far the General is connected with, or has the principles of, Steinberger, perhaps he will explain the meaning of the following extract from a letter of introduction from Steinberger to an influential gentleman of this place, copies of which letter have been bunded tons:- "General Bnrtlett goes to Samoa with letters from me to the Samoan Government, and in my absence be will be my representative."—Ed. S. T.J