TALK ABOUT TOWN.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 121, 24 January 1880, Page 2

TALK ABOUT TOWN.

'• There's a duel amang vo tttkiii' notes. Ami faith hu'll :n™i t'lieui." Where's the Collector ? Not linving a very largo interest at stake, J do not intern I to devote much of my "awfully valuable" time to a dissertation or criticism upon the formidable looking batch of regulations which have been issued by the Municipal Board of Apia, But thci'O is one thing that I am anxious to learn and that is—where is the Collector!' Thu object of the publiu meeting held in the Rarotonga Church un the 23rd December, and convened by the three, Consuls constituting the Munipal Boaid, was the election of three supervisors, an assessor, a collector, and a treasurer for the Municipality, according to articles (i and 7 of Municipal Regulations, No. 1, concerning Public Officers, Mr. Thomas Young, an American citizen, well and favourably known on this beach, was, within a shade, unanimously elected for the nllico of collector; but, for some reason unknown to the successful candidate, or to the free and (un>nlightont d electors of Apia, he has not received fiom the Hoard notice of either his appointment ■ or his rejection. Vol')' polite, certainly. I have heard that the office Waa abolished on tin'score of economy, —and 1 see they have put it upon the broad shoulders of our unorgotie, and trustworthy Chief of l'o!h:e,--!his, perhaps one can scarcely I say anything uguin>t, hut I do object to

this spirit of economy being earned out I so far that they would not afford, through their secretary, the common courtesy and the price of a sheet of note paper and an envelope toinform the suecessfulcandidate of the peculiar suddenness of the change in their plans. Our Butcher, On the strength, I suppose, of tho attempts of the Municipal Board to civilise wo benighted Apiuns, one enterprising individual has launched out to assist the Board in their good endeavours to make the placo something on a par with a town of the same size and capabilities as in the colonies, by commencing business as a butcher. Mr. Peter CulTcn has made such arrangements as will enable him to supply us with mutton or; pork every morning, and beef on Saturdays, lie will nlso endeavour to keep his market supplied with pigeons, in season, and vegetables. Instead of trusting to Dick, Tom or Harry to kill occasionally, we I fathers of families can stroll to the market in the morning and pick out or favourite pieces to bo delivered by the boy in time for breakfast. "Thomas Jefferson '." That four-legged terror of tho Beach Road from Muliuuii to Matnutu Points, the celebrated tho rough-bred large sized rat (miscalled horse) Thomas Jefferson is at last, I believe, in safe hands. The blessed animal is scarcely worth looking at, and yet, perhaps, it has given more expenso to its late owner, more trouble to the police, and a greater source of terror to the mothers of little children, than fifty times tho value of the horse would recompense. But now 1 think "terror Tom" is in good hands for, 1 hear, that in a few days from now, his free and wild jcareer will not only bo for ever at an end, but we shall see him trotting along the road, with the butcher's boy on his back, carrying his basket of meat on the light arm and wearing the inevitable spur on the left foot. "B'cher '. any orders this mornin' mum 'i Cyril,