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Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 1, 29 September 1888, Page 2

Wo have just received intelligence that 13 hoiijOTjjere huirneJ down Inet wWk f»y ft Rnvaii con- j tigent of Mataafa’s army, ono of the j houses being TamnHose’s principal ; residence. It Is reported that the act j was a retaliation for the burning of. their t«,wn by the German ship of war . Olga, last year-

TTost Meredith evidently has confidence in the. future of Samoa- He has \ made extensive additions to his hotol. A large building for new bar and I sittinn-roota, hits boon added. Tho | old building will bo converted into a billiard-room F.titahlo for two tables, one of which ht< has jut t received by tho Lubcck ; tho other is already j oil the premises. Tho now bar is very j handsome, spacious and tastefully i fitted up. It would b* a orodit to any : hofel in the colonic". The sitting-room which will b* handsomely furnish-d, j is also of large dimensions, and will, no doubt, favorite resort. Wo wish bim all the success which his enterprise deaojfues. Our storekeepers are all feeding the effects of the native disturbance. They report to us that their business has fell off more than 60 per cent, since tho commencement of the outbreak. The nntivee are hoarding their money for tho purchase of gnns end ammii nitiou solfly, and if affairs are settled it will be a considerable time before trndo will improve. Home of their nativotov -isbeing wrecked and burned down they will be in an impoverished , state for mn.iy months. , A few evenings since aglaro of light , wa» scon through the half closed shutters of Mr. IJodoy's promises. Mr. Dunn and Mr. Adam Main n.shod to (lie building whore thry pnw n hero-' sono lamp nblnzo. Mr. Mair jumped through the window and catching the lamp at tho bottom carried it out the i bock door when it burst, the grass all round being set fire to, and only evtinguished when a wet blanket wns j thrown on tho flames by Mr-Niebuhr. : had the lamp burst iusidethe buildiug there might hnve been a serious conflsirration. the promises being full of native lioxes at the time, and probably the whole block of buildings would havo be?n burned down.

i S.n.-ii H l( > fight ••! Septemhn IJlh | ! I>i>th parties have boon adding tn their j numbers. Tamasesn nwl hi* army ; (>n lining thonwolvc* strirtlv to Mulinu j Point, which point is occupied by marines from IJ.T.M.S. Adler, and of course safe from anv attempt being made on it hy Matunfa men. Several boats sent ii]> cewntry to towns still ; favorable to Tamasese. to procure j food, were 6rod upon hut no j ilono until Monday lust, when one of I TiunasPMo's supply hnats venture,! out alone, anil unfortunately for them : mine within reneh of some of Mataafu's , , boat guns. A sharp h>e was opsnoJ by Mutaafn men, and four of the occupants of Tamasese's boat were shot, j two of thmn dying almost immediately and the other two nt night. This part of the battle was observed hy our reporter. AH kinds of reports are con- ; tiumilly being: brought in of other j encounters, but wo are not in a position j ',. v rifv '

,\ Viirv iii!oro"*ins" scne -v\~ wit- - nessed in tho Foreign Church, Apia. ■ on Sunday evening, the l-»th September instant, when after the conclusion of the sermon by the Kov. J. TTills. } Pajiiain Tobie of the Missionary Imrqiio I John Williams, was introduced vo the- j congregation several native teachers - and their wives from Rorotongn, Ta- j hiti, and adjacent islands. The Pap- I tnin said that he had known most of i them from their childhood, and that j thry had given themselves to the \vi>rk ! of taking the Gospel to the natives of j New Guinea, where several of them had friends who had written to these j men to corie over and help them in the great work of evangelising the natives of that continent. The teachers | with their wives then sung a hvmi: in I the Rorotongn language in a phasing manner and with great effect. Tt was surprising to hear what progress they have made during the last twenty '< yenrs-