HOW CERTAIN MERCHANTS IN APIA MAKE MONEY.
TO THE El'tTOn OF THE SAMOA TIMES. Sir, —Let tliom ask you to obligethem with loan of English <iold and lot thorn hnvo it at tlio rate of ton per rent.; tal<o their word that whenever you require English gold thoy will privo it to you at the same rato; then allow about a year to pnss when you will ask tie morchants kindly to let you havo part of your English frold, and with n smiling fnco accept of their reply that they have forgotten nil about the transaction, and lie told that no written agreement in regard to the returning of tho English gold had boon made. Be thrown out their stores hv two white and half a dozen brown ftumonns and go home to consider that during the time that the English gold was handed ovor and now, a differonco of exchango to tune of 20 pur cont. exists. If you dosiro to learn tho names of the worthies you may apply to yours, &c, O'J'TO A DAM,
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Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 1, 29 September 1888, Page 2
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178HOW CERTAIN MERCHANTS IN APIA MAKE MONEY. Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 1, 29 September 1888, Page 2
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