TALK ABOUT TOWN.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 111, 15 November 1879, Page 2

TALK ABOUT TOWN.

" There's a eliiol amang yo takiu' notes, And fuith ho'll jireut them." Thore must be something more attractive about Samoa thau I have ever boon ablu to discover, —espeoially during this past fortnight or so of dirty, wet, close, muggy weather, with the attendant evils of faamai, loss of appetite, and the prospoct of a continuance of ditto until tho New Year is well Bet in. Not a cheerful stato of things ; aud yet, strange to say, wo are scarcely ever without some half-a dozen visitors on our shores. Such is Samoa ! At the present time, iu addition to persons in transitu, we feel—or ought to—honoured by'the presence and distinguished patronage of three magnates from the Tonga islands, a most significant sign of .the increasing prosperity of this country, and an honour uuparrellod iu the. history of Samoa. These gentlemen have, at this unpleasant time of the year left a cooler climate, and their comfortublo mansions, with attendant luxuries which cannot be obtained here to pay us a visit, and what have they received in return ? Tho Neutral Territory Government would not go to the expense of erecting a triumphal arch of "Welcome" ; the principal hotel in the town, —the "Hetel do Calaboose," so ably conducted by John Ryan,—is not according to their taste ; while the olerk of the weather has steadily carried out his disagreeable programme with an amount of pertinacity that looks "a kind-er wiscious.' It is very evident that he is no respecter of .pcrsous or titles, or ho would surely have inado some alteration in his unhealthy hill of faro the moment that he heard that iris Serene Highness Le Coinpte de Bullefela, Sdnor Hantoin de Anthoneic Sobcranyhow, and my Lord Charles Frederic Augustus Fitz-Loftus do Vito-ohappelle-KoTontorie had arrived in our midst, ready to buy anything and everything from a silver ladlo to a quart jug. It is rumoured that thor will be heavy buyers of lumber at the auction safe next Tuesday as a preliminary step to-wards-tho erection of a mammoth hotel. Ryan aud tho other proiicans hod better keep a weather-eye open. Tho porsonwho full from tho roof of a house at Matautu ono day this week is requested to Dunn-o doit again. CYRIL.