GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 94, 19 July 1879, Page 3

GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS.

Our Governor has no.nl a Imiklsoii D letter uf tlinukM to thu King of Tonga for his kiuducaa to tlio vhipwruuked eruw of the Keilnr. If is a liawlsoiiiuly ill' - miijiituil document, and no doubt wdl form onu of tl rno .it . of hi* Tungim nmjosty'H pnlai-n. Tlwavtitifi.il flower i* one of tho most interesting m nance, llio number of iiiaimfnclurors »f artiflcuu flower* throughout the country is abnnl 3000 producing upward* of SS.OOO.OOOf, of (lowers and 13,000,QQ0f. of ornamental feathotn. The salaries average from it, 50c, t>> 3f. 30a for women. I •!■!', to sf, [or ni"ii. Tim writorof" PerlpoteHa PhlloMphy ' [„ the Sydney }ttu\ «ay»i ''Stagnpore ipneoi* to bo tho hwvan of th» Bootcn-| ~,,'u Ther»iil»gontl«in«JW«rP "'hue history ll quite in keeping with oft-told itories of Mw thrifty out] ptwWng ru.v. Ho arrived in the nttlnteat wwo tinny years ago a poor lad, with only tho re-

guhati.-n hall rruwnjahk )«i ltd A .-n !," li.-„!,|, ,„..,| I, , ,„ , „, .1, a fruil stall. Being thrifty '.--.■ in n IT. Now 111- has || . ; '"'-'';!•. U I - - : ■ with i'om , ami ;■ ' '.M.I I . II 1,11 give. Splendid ..;,;. : ' - ill* [\ ■■ ||, . |l|j ,„ . m ,|,., |,is l-'irsllv. hj. Kn< lisdi is ii.il pur,- :h • S]Kitks ivjtli : . s t',„„ • Scotch ' " S.c.ii.ily. his -x.ii ami h.ii- lias I -■ ■■■ ■ 'li>appointm.-iit. Tin- vi.utli pro- '"•-"! "ell. Il..:".-.(!,. rs :,! him ton lilc.iti hi to-oi-coun>e the l-;,!iiil,iii»l, l':iiicrsity, win iv he did well and t.,'.,k :i dc-.-I"'. '>'■'<'■ ''• lib, ■■■ .II to till! mnnsiun his veneral I i sir,- was hortii ied to discnvc tlm! : tewr lei ,1 \ ,ng •«»n i::i'i ill ,If his tail: Tin- 'met is tin.- hmi. Mr. Wimmpou, (i.M.C, i, ... Chinaman, ami although owing I , thu prevalence of Scotchmen ami measles at Singapore-he lias a marked Caledonian acc-.ul, In- is conservative in his national i-h-if. I havu narrated the for-going iiarni iv.- ,vi ii a ; :..;. . •-. There is n moral !in iging to i; with more fix-dness than tlm tail of the unhappy Whanipoa junior, who is lamenting Id's defiance of all which gives a dignity ami grace to man in thu rctiremenl of a remote town in China, to wiiieli his justly ollemJod parent banished hint. lint 'the moral. Who can iloul.i tin- ultimate ascendency of a race whose uihers can come out first in industrial struggle among a crowd of .Scotchmen, and o\ ,:upl,-te with thai acute people in th ■ us,.- oi their own fin ii nogd-v N ,: rl.m.lcr. slevm-i I whi.-h .'ii... • ! in I'ii' Sa.-l r-.- ,-niiy. j :'.'' "-?:■■• : " ':''':'■ ' ! .\'''.! ]■:.' iui.-'umM..'"''!''!-,"''";..,!':,"; ':■■■ l Z\ mi,.- was so boUt-rous that l-.n lii,- and! '■m '■"'-■'' Ki.mi.l.mg ».-.., .piitc im-j |'"ssio:-. I'll- dan.:..■■- .1 to thai Mr. Wii::..,,, Mr.iT....- favors „s will, timioiiov,.,.-, ;v.,:.,; ~.::i ;:,!..,,.,,. „„.i i hot i- in- :,-■-,■ ~-.,...;;,!. into which the-, i ca:i I-.- swept, iin.l t!..,. destroy.-,!, lie- \ a '.;.; .• "I Kni-,'.. „:■" Iv-a! ill"'- uiZti'l ■-'<■ ;■••' in n i. - ow tin. and -! ..n lire II ' ' ■ :■ i! !-, -". Milder ami the sim-l;.-1 ■ liml i!> way in!,, th.- loom, will .jiii-.l l!i pots f.,r two hmi.-.,, dining w.ii.-h I ralin-r n pistigcul sin.-!l. I.ut nd imp! ■..- I -an!, not ;.. i„. (-..n,pr,i',-d «' : ii tit ■ Laud mid 'Wafer ;-ivi-s t!i.- fol! iwin-r hiln. As hi, was |,assiu- I!!;„•!< fiinrs liri.l'c the >ock iK-fon- !a-l a hols,-m-ylu-,1 vcrv lomllv; Mr. - iv,-..!; :l i»-.| tin-sound, and looking round saw liv-h..is,.-s ti.-.J ii].. rlo.-u to ti utrance to in.. I,no-.-. One of li.-ui agaii igh.-l: the :.ll! 11l so u.l li !i I- : , v llr„r r owner; hut in elian-iu,' hands he had also changed colour. I!.- had 1,,-,, cleverly dyed or [lainteil d.-uk hiwvu; Imy. 'i'ii.' in.. l , colour was soon v.a-ie d oil', and Mr. - r.-covered his pr.ipi-r.y I,ut failed to trace the thief, who had sold him id a fair in Hants, to tic- .nan ill whose ] „sM--i- a hi- in.,-!, !■ found i •, . ■ 'hi',," ,■ i v.-a-i ......s'li,.. fridge, a. I haiici nil.. Tim !!...:„., uml.-r li." h-'i-li-ig of l l-ath of tic lain -lit'-d I'l'im -"f li,-.e on the sun," day of the in,.in:, an I [ iveek as that of the I'rince Consml ut- j .acted treneral attention, hut it miv ! lothavn' I u so universally nhsi-i-v.-.l |, lull Sat »v has hen a fatal day to . | lie UoV.ll I'm,,, iv "f lin.;'a-id for the i,..t !C"7 \va.s:-'-William II I. died Sa- ]

tuidav, Maivli l\ I '■'-: <>"' ii Aimi' i ,l„,l Saturday, Amji-j !, 171 !■; '1- rj ■■'. ,1i,.,l Saturday, .hum H>. [727 M.j. ,H,HlSntiii-iliiv,()i-t<il»T2.'»l"«o:< -111-I----died Saturday, .January 2:>, <i»'»W ' J IV, died Sivtiirduy, .liiuu 80, l*) 0; tlio ( ' l)iii.!|.'.--; of ly.n! died Maturdny, Xfaivli , ] |i; |,Si!l ; tho I'rii cu i 'uiisort died .-'. - , !f,ir.l..y, I 1 'inl f I ', ''VI: I'liiM',-- , | AliVu lied Saturday, l»ccf!»liuc I I, , t IS7M. t I Captain Paul Lloyton, the fan • I I swimmer who orossod tin; English I'liaii- v i ncl, lias a nuiubor of qiieot experience* to t Irulato, Mqua timu while Hooting down j to the Danube, und enjoying a nan, ho i was awakened by .he dashing ><"»'"'"' B ' large inUJ-wkeel under (lie rapid ourront i was carrying him. Ho oould not oscapo, t j and turning hiniaolf upon his faoe he was t carried underthe wheol, the paddles cut- .- ting a severe gash in hli lioad, II" was > lluallv taken mm) tfad water by some i persons; and fainted from exhaustion and i I lo f blo*L In crossing the straits of i M,. t nahe bad ndssporata rtgbl with a I shark aud though he drove the Qsh off, I

. . I i.-k- n by a l.h.w from its tail. \\ !,>.:.■ Bo»Ui Komme 1 • ~eei-.,si ; , cbai *v ;- i foet funn n hunter wlm, i, the I :..i-'..s,k ti o* n.. duck \i ilie aiion 11 nuvting nf the > mtli Viixtmlimi Auxiliary U> tin- L-mdon Mis--i"i,;,i v S-'.-i.-!-.. iii-id at Adelaide on tin |7th May, ti,.- U»v. Jarapu ( halmei>, tie N.-u liiiiu.-a niis-ii..i.u .. as reported l-y tli" 1;..':.-tei. inn,lt- the following -!!_;- »peeting tlm exploration of th> island •" vVhal lio wuuld sugg, at to any I i.<s .::.i. t that »"H slillieieully Olltell>risino to explore Xow (iuiuea « iiiM Im tlii, - I - ai.p dill a man who un lei toml tniveiliuo an.l </i\>- him a thoiough stall of seientitie men, ;- ■ , ..;i i. fnmi the South I'ii.-,lie i.slau.is, ,- u ,,l hind thu party lit l'o.t Moieshy. hj, .!. Iheui well witii money, ~ml then .New Guinea would be explored, and the civilised woi Id would kuow,.f it. It we had only in these colonic-. :i man like Bennett, of New \ ~,!<. « ,o would say to n man like Stanley—'.Nun ley, theio i-New (Juineu; exploit) it thoroughly ; lind oul everything ih.-re is ,o-l„- found nlioiit it 1' ho thought if any man were enterprising enough to ■ 1., lljiil in- might safely predict that tlm ex],ehsis of ti,,. .-xpeil'ition v.oiiM !„. nil recouped l,y tlm kuowledgo thai would ho gained, and the enriositics of various kinds in natural historv and other valuable stoi.-. thai would'lm hrought back. II" would not trust, the native carrim*. II any expedition of tin- hind should ever he undertaken i.y in, Australian colony he would strongly S ulvi • to "... a until nh . would m,l i.e nfn.i I of 11,-. native ■ - no! n man »ic, if : „- •iwa s] ear raised, woiiid follow the too :':■•.'., -i-nt piacti.e ~f ' •;- riHe iiiel down native. It, wa.i far hjiter lo :. . uniongM mk-!i people uniirunil, lor i.y thai m.-ans lie irionli ;■ nee ..a- seetircd." Al IJI.-il-i.-r-, n vili.!..-.• nc.i:- Villa-!., in the Austria;, Tviol, mi enormous mi lane-he ha., fail..,', f.,„„ .\!„„ |),,:., u t-■!,, ini'l erusli.-d nine Imus.s. 1, e ll,e e-iip.-esof u who!,- I'aioilv ,-f ,-ie-lit iv.-n- --->' mi ' : in tii" ..:!.. is iw.-my-l ■• killed ■ wl on, jiave sin..- died", ami lifiei n , iher i' i -on.. i:re mi .sing. 'I lie ava i.i .he is -Ml luetics broad iind ."IS high. A ,ivoml avidant-lm fell on a h..u-e, killing •-even pel oils, an I nhoilt eighly a-. ,1 uches nine la,l,■ n within an area f eight miles. The lilobe leiirns iVom St. I'etersl.nr' 111" illtehigetllv has 1,.,-el, l-ec-ivel f: ,|„ VciiioJ I'.a.t the Ciiinese troop., h'tVe ma-ssai ivd iOiil) p-ople al Tad', 1:..,::,. ii- in- the Kuijn lroiitier, and at Oofali, llu-ee miles fioin Kashgar, for assisting Ike iiisiirgciits during tin- recent raid.- of Khaki,„ Khan. Three thousand M:: - 11 - n.an refugees have arrived at 111" l!usann line- along the Athasiia, seeking pro-BcV-don from ill- I him-5,.. An inl iinil tent war I etweei, tile Chinese and lh" I in- 1 lon liazcUe announces thai | the Urn-en ha- :,.-,.„ p|,-ai -d to signify in-r intention to confer the decoration of the \ i,:.,ria Cross on Captain John I 'ook. I' lh" Heugal Statl' Corps, tor a signal set of valour at the action of the I'c'iwjiV ivola! on the 2nd of I) mher, IS7S. in Having, dming a very heavy li. •, charged nit ol iin-entrenchments with such jmlietuosity tl, lt | [ netiiy broke iu.,l lied, '.'.•l-. ii, ■ ,-lc -ug =-.t t! ■'>:■• ' i i inelee, tlm danger of Major ( lilhraitll, A-s-sistant-Adjutant-tieneral K nam C,null, field i-'orce, who was in persontd .-onllict with an Alfghan sohliei; Captain 'ook distracted his attention to himself, unl aiming a sword cut which the Diiraiee avoided, -sprang upon him, and graspiu his tlnoal, grappled with him. ' I'hev led !.. Ihe ground. 'l'ii,- Ihiranee.'a uost powerful man, still endeavoured Lo is" his rille, seized Ciipiuin C.-.k's arm ii ins teeth, until the Mniggle was ended iy 1 1,-.: man being shot through tii-u-ud. 1..-. XIII. has;,.-,-,, cited to appear be-

Fort- n Conn ot Canton St-liMin;. ' A forH'lit I'atholit. Dt' tho canton who died i Uli.n-1 lime ryo loft liy his will certain !„• imc'sts 1,1 ;|„. I :i:i|.. i"..1 - i>t' Austria niiil \ ifrazil, and : M j,«.u.i,-.I t!, 1'.,;,, his lv-i- ---: dnaiy !i--ati-i\ Tin i will i coiitc/tcil '•■•'. I tin' ll< if-ai-law all tin- jvumci tli.it when i In- :: h- il tin- t.' iKiur v.ti ; <.■ ; in hini • .- i. Ti.,. two 1.:., ■ irs wh. j W.-rii ,:,:, !,• ;ri:;;..< („ (],,■ MU I h:;Ve IV in mi 1 tiii-if claims under tii.. iuij>tij •••n• ■ f Instrument, I, i:i th.; I'.-po, ii .1 imv- ; iiy relumed any answer to 1:..,-fi;:.• wnich have n ad.lrc.-scd to him in Hie. j innttcr, has been suaimoitfd t.i appear ! lii-I'nl-O tiio rant-.:.;,! tI'll•llll.il ntl.l show cause why llic decree privcd for l,v the heir.s-iit-lav,' shoiihl not 1.,' panted.' Tim (iippsland Mercury relates the fob lowiiig story:- " Tlio husband of a pati -lit in tho local hospital, whose homo is r ■ it twenty-live inil.-s from the town, v.i. mi.-t n[ion his way to Sain by a friond,' ><■":■ skcd i'. i tho ~: ..'•:'..'' I:. pure: ■ Tho man rupliot) that his wifo find died |li.-it morning in tho hospital, and he, nf course, w->;!;...| to v.rtii.-' body before sho was lii|iim|,« Natiii-ally there wan soma ■! ibt cxpressgd on (Jin mibjoct by tho oilier puiiy, |,„| tin> liu-Kiml dio'.aral ill.it |ip was ijiiitn BfttUlM (hat thoooourrcncii hail tftlfun plftpo, as Ii" bad seen his wifu .standing at his bedside at 2 o'clock that morning, and no continued on his journey, Un arriving at the i utitution, no tolii tho hulls.' steward that his wifo was dead, much to til" astonish nt of thai gentleman, wh" admitted that it was tna i-..5.', and that bis patient had died at tho hour nn'iili n ,I by tin' husband, hut >aid hi' had not J'cl hud limn to .send n iiic'suiga to anyone »n the lubjeet, \\ lint • .'ins hi put tin. truth of th" man's-tale-iM nt beyond di.nhi or .|in'sti..n. i, Iho t.i. t that lln ra is neither n >-t, ulHu ■ or i lii gflii|>h sinii mi \\i;liiu thiit '.ii mile* of his ii'sidoaitc,"