Local and General.

Samoanische Zeitung, Volume 20, Issue 16, 17 April 1920, Page 5

Local and General.

It will lie some three months back :Mr.H. J. Moors, made a gift to ' the to be pient in UppUi. The £iooo lorries w,hjc]i,vin due course will !" cash, which /lias alt eady l*en paid* Jp -,

; Messrs; (Samoa) Lt&toave been appointed the '•' local agents lor the newest and said to be the most teautifdl of all talking, machines—-The Salonola. The machine is characterised by those '-, who have seen it in operation as the talking machine par excellence. Those interested are invited to Messrs. Meredith's Ltd; to hear it. In view of the increased number of motor lorries now on ; our roads,, one of them a 3 ton lorry, it will be well for';,, the authorities to keep an eye',"; on the stability of the bridges. A portion of the Vaisigano bridge is said to be none too , -safe (or heavy traffic.

The total amount contri T buted towards the defraying of the. loan of v the Apia Protestant Church from the L.M.S. by the collections on Good Friday and Easter Sunday* together with other sumsj amounted toV/23 9s \3d.f Further contributions will be • thankfully received, in order 7 that the amount. owing may be cleared off, ,

On the occasion of Anisac Day the Returned Soldiers' intend to make the day a fitting one. Alt returned soldiers are invited, in uniform or mufti, to parade at the Customs Shed on Sunday, the 25th, at 9 a.m. and march to j:he Apia Protestant Church, 1 ' where a memorial service for the glorious dead will be conducted by the Rev. Sibree, A' firing party will fire a salute and the "Last, Call" will be sounded. The occasion will be an impressive one.

At a Corani ittee meeting of the Returned Soldiers'- Association on Monday nigljt details for the forthcoming Ball, to be" held in the Central Hotel on Thursday evening, April 2% were arranged. The following; were elected: to carry put the arrangements: Sister Smitlj, MesdamesWallace,;. .Ehilifps, Teunerit, dhurchwafdj O'Dwyer, Mpprs; Miss Whitmbre; and Messrs. Shaw and H. Tattersall. Mr. K» Hufnagel-Bethatn, formerly known as K. Hufnags,twfco6e, notice of change of surnaniift appears in ; a recent issue bfcthe;. Auckland"Star," has aid^te^lthemaiden game iof his mb|uer»;a daughter of the Betham, and a of the late §ir Wiliiam^etham, Suffolk, England," H; JJethara was ;afc Sanioa under British I*roviMpttal Governmeuti awd at thjß;Syduey Church, of "Enjp land >C©m*fet&feg' hisv studiestb&e, he to New Zealand early in &»&&& since that date has .*eiid&:jn Auckland. .« J«lfaliiftbeen > rep«iKt«d to us

vthat Mr. Holland is' alleged to have stated on hosted, tfie Mokoia that Be had visfjsed the Fiji Times and Herald Office and from the interview, Jbe found we were Jmti-Britishi. The statement, vif tnie"|as we believe it is from the source., of our information, is i|ot;only - - a foul libel, but an itf rbciotts are gjlad that we don't iciok uponlfiife 'knd-i; the grands old Empire and" other standpoint of 'Mr. 'Harry! We treated him eve£y courtesy;sad regret W much waste: of valuable: time, as was occupied in speaking to him.'*# (Mr. Holland subtd the Editor v denying that he made such a statement;) Iu the Capetown }3ouse of Assembly on: March' 23 the Prime Minister, .General SmutSf sals tulft - of 'Germans domiciled' Lor; "resist in SoutlfAfrica had been restored in toto, not only.. the capital but the interest. > The"Government had witli'exemplary generosity. <>

The resignation of Sir Jaines Allen, Minister for Defence, Finance, and External Affairs, has been gazetted, A New Zealand contemporary forecasts that P.' Lee will probably beepme the new Minister of External Affairs, which> embraces the care of Samoa There is a possibility that Sir Heaton Rhodes-may become the new Minister. In response' to the toast of " The Visitors," during Jhe entertainment of the Parliamentary Party -at -the Grand Pacific Hotel at Suva on March 18, Sir fame's Allen : ■ said: &jWe have come to the Pacific great problems. The Ne#|sfcaland Government had pa^||d^an Order in' Council, gazetted by \ now thatfigpba would-rcome under civil..Administration on May PufUrust v ' very ser»p|f|:;and witt'llo all we can toic»tlßerve the native races andpffij&e them; happy and contffijjjy ■ "\ Mrs. J&Mgfcnis& an extensiveJß swelled lady and a well knpfo w&ter i» at present subsequejl pteit Samoa and ,

jom -Russell, an American *■£**** ~' a!Hj journalist,, is visiting |f jjj j tts t no wlosecure information ne *taf£f. He BiasJnst spenf #«e feasant months in ••'; &a"nioa getting;, local, colpur.; & is going aopresentihe islanjSin the facts? not as otner : modern Writers have done, whose "inside" knowledge has been from the poop of a nfeii Steamer.