BUSINESS STOPPED.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 356, 3 April 1889, Page 5

BUSINESS STOPPED.

A private letter from Samoa giving an account of the casualty .gives the following additional particulars : — All business is stopped and the people ashore are still very excited. We cannot asserbain for certain, but it is estimated that at least 200 men have been drowned. We suffered very little on shore, but as we have not heard from the outside districts since the hurricane, it cannot be stated what damage has been ' done there. Three men-of-war and fotr merchantmen are complete wrecks now and the rest, of the ships are ashore. They may be got off, bub it is doubtful. Mr Hall, of the Nipsic, said that with the assistance of all his men he could not get the vessel's engine into working- order in less than three wesks, and Lsuppose it will be the same wibh the other war vessels. Captain Mullen's black boy Tom is drowned, and Mullen has offered $100 for recovery of the body. , Mullen is also suffeiing severely on account of his own loss. Mataafa arid Seumanu sent about 400 Samoans to che beach, and it they could have- been supplied with ropes, would have been ready to swim i off. Mr Clark, Paymaster of the Trenton^ while standing in the street talking was run, over by a man-o'-warsman and sustained a scalp wound and an injured arm. The sailors from theshipsare lodged in the hotels, in McArthurs large copra shed, and elsewhere. Gurr has the contract for feeding 150 men, Ah Sue doing the work. The band from the Trenton played last night (the 17th) arid again to-night. Mr . Moors has been, very kind to the shipwiecked people. He has , furnished' his front room with articles saved from the, Admiral's cabin, in place of his own iurniture. The safety of the Calliope which was brought about by steaming out

of. the< harbour the* height of the hurricane, has replaced in themindsofSamoansjaJittle of the lost power of England, Jand^'we 'are prouder bhan ever of our;Bribidh ships.". SALE OF LIQUOR' PROHIBITED. J* The following notice was issued yestet" day by Mr Blacklock, U.S. Vice- Consul':— , Apia, Samoa, Marcl^ 17bh','1889.! To the hotelkeepers at Apia. , . » You are hereby ordered not to sell or give away or allow any liquor to be furnished on yourpremises to any sailor from any American men-o'-war. If this order ie not strictly obeyed your saloon will be broken into, and ; all your liquor emptied out. (Signed.) W. Blacklock. < , U.S. Vice Consul. Notwithstanding this notice, some of the publicans ai;e selling as fast as they can, notwithstanding that armed guards are parading the beach and others acting as sentries over the hotels. • 'In fact, no one can get admittance unless on private business. , .