THE SAMOA TIMES. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1895.

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume 7, Issue 27, 13 April 1895, Page 2

THE SAMOA TIMES. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1895.

weeE created nation. The Council, at their j meeting en the following! Tliorsday, wcl-3 afflicted with, a! spasmodlo activity that was'r quite refreshing. 71k 1 import-! ance—D&y absolute necessity— | of immediate measures being! taken to provide a fire engine, aucl ctlier mo!VU3 of extinguishing fi-t-.vre five*, had bsooine painfully apparent to r.no and alt of the C'ty Fa tile's; so math. A y rnd?ed.. that deliberations on the subject were cordial to an up.unial extent. Tory psoperly, the meeting opened with a vote of :r.an](s to promThent ■workers'in[subduing Monday's conflagration; after which the question of a "fire encriae astir discussed, and wisely ■or not, SISOO were devoted to th'J purchase of a haad engire, hose, find appliances. This be&g-determined, a restduthn wis pasied compoljjng albxeijidents within the

Municipality to he provided with 1 buckets anil an axo, in each hnuHehold. The Pueaident was the Father of t'jjs suggestion, based,;we believe, upon KO'iie- %uch regulation as exists ' —or did at onetime exist in Honolulu. The President was teloqaeiii and entLr.siaa'.io on the subject lie parted aJaddcr,, G. buAet*, ajnd 2 axes of Jarg? aiafe; forced upon eaeh resident. We- iu tho first place that the.-.: wsefvvl, if not vtsrv ornamental, «;• icteai were f ti> oe f gift, as the resolution reed " b.'uoh householder shali be provided with, etc.,'' ano* we we?* congratulating ourselves on the many uses to which We could put theui ; but later oa wc realised that each j %&d. iilcf cj would hare t© find { the neeerfiU. coin wherewith to jiurehasifd th«< same. Xow j t>> tpe&ti ' mdiliy, we .'kiij . ■! , ■;,, t!;';"- itnpWtlCO. tven in i^pr^pwMtreduced for.r»; and v..»l':ar.' no Vi»wl»fc whfttavor I ta..t u '.• ;•» tiu:> tUfl e« c'<* ri , as]

| i>-i> s Ives. We have _»o r e t :>»n ( | ietiottgh uf tSX-ti a u.i'-v.u;.*, whici ere bear with cnu-t-ivi- J la'/ji-u, ~.i •:. v. ii't.'.fl're-i- ---• jtii'i:t,«MM ii.:- ji.o >•■-t; •.:, <*onikler axes |h_<k - ;i-: buckets nn>TM>fj < lv. ::•; »!:>'.••-isttugri ctu_tjs*a-teea [ruea let them provide the sup- ' riy out of the Auxticipal tn«As 11 >w in the Treasury. Hosse--1 ii i.dera WOUt «»'.ijr ;t to tutnglng i u\> these ibieotaof art, or other- , placing them ii a ooj-pi- : cuous ntnattpi-, about tivir; j several pren: !-*,», nolt'i-r #i_f| • the r.at vps object tonrpropriar- j I iaf, r thein;afi'j ■ vrliidii-eat tieies lean b*» ceilac»] by others at j J the hoosehoider'a expense, of 1 I Non-compliance with j I this resolution entails a fine orj \ ; £lO. Wliere are we to look fop) • fairness or common sense iu j I this proportion emanating fro_s [our President t "We cxn see I neither : bus we ?&n ses a gross | imposition upon the hons-iiioid-fcr.->. 3fr. Gorr made a valiant; ; attempt to explain li__- nbsnrd- j l ity ot' the suggestion, bttt hitl : voice, robust ns all know it to i

be>. v.aa only partly sufficient for the occasion. Say there are j two hundred Itfxisehc-fclers withiln the Muntcipality—and this jis V)f-Ur.v the. mark when Ba-l ■ moans are inchi&ed—weigh*!! hare 800 buckets decorated I with iho owners' monograms, j and 200 Urge axes, ail out on I ! show, Bid each »rtkde*abso- ', hrtely requiring a Chiibh or I lYa'e l-.ck. as a. precautionary j measure agair.4 the playful at- . ientiona of some of our native j friends. Tbeae are facta that ! ought t<> have been patent to j i the President during the''time] [occupied by hiiu'm hatching j I'tho egg prior to tho meeting oft j Couu-ir His colleagues were' J " tal;en on the hop " as it were, I i an i for the»n see-could fi.ici exI cuses, hut not tor the origuiaj tor uf this hriiirairt i'leit. I • Given tho like eircumstannes■in forty-nino out of fifty com- j nranvfcies, whet woald be the) i course pursued ? • .Simply for i the Conjicil to prov'dfe ladders,.! \ a truck, backets, axes, amrPornaj FOpe, in a few central situaiti ::s uad«r sheds - ; access to I which tob- 1 iy.yfu to the police I [tour ISSuefS; a edit of i ope, j Jl2 axes, 25 'Thickets," and a | truck would ho an. supply I and these could be in ?h"args ot i the- policy at the station:. . 'i'o i use an expressive vulgarism, I'the resolution" ' criticised is i "Tommy rot"—"no other ex- . i passion Bitlts it. ;:T:r:- nviwgo of amnggling against ' : Mr. P ■'.■■■■•• ChaViuliT. v.iis oiw? of the ! >' most i ; j, o o'ts chancer, and indi-i -Tcates on> df tw'p things—-either.] .! rim; the ?;•esiclen't', w'io instituted _ j tho ptoMtKliag*; wished to j a/<" his na;:ie a* an ofahnnr. ' ' ( niril iacttvidy, or was actuated by 'ljpeißonal motive*. Here we firiij • J a regular importer of considerable : ; i quantities of Merchandise by almost (, j every Australasian steamer arriving II in this pojt,charged with smuggling _ I two paid t wa'ehes value for dn.y jSi 60. The suppiwtion that there 1 : was an attempted evasion of ililty j by h:?:i V7f:s fbi>lir.ely tc> absnrd. rjThe facts in tho Cttstj-JHeforo. tho . . Police C Miit clearly dem 'U'tratod I ( that as a matter of justice the «•■- Unao.l ~,„.M •»»..(» „..„«; !„..,.<:.. I

i ; cuseu' could mt bo erm»Wo«d in j I iinv sensq the impn; t r. fiyen had ' 1 1 ho been ho, the Ciit-foms Authnri- • j ties hud no feo iiKS-im* tlwi he -j Intended to evnde his nl.ligntio.is ; ! until niter the sLxth-.any provided • • by Mia (Justoin.s DrdinuiKp had I Up-uil. li w-\s argued by thp pro- j U.i.i|t, ; on ii,it». g u.i'.4 nott)»'thoj ' | mnnif.'-t. must h.i fji>e'ared bonrd I 1; t!;e siii.v llifl Or&nititibo in>-Sbrcel ' j ip t!)>aport doM nod pp-/ go, nlj though \vp cotifoA that such a pro- , | tin's Tide wnitoi'.when speaking to l j'he sti ; w,uul, Ibmlc-tt about tl»e j I \yntcSm in (fji.ettion,. did iwt inform ! ' f ittt, I iut, Lefore Tic, c ,:d ! Mke thM, | o-r. vofe. hn must pay duty, 'lh.' iwhoU ciftfltßStWie»B sm-f.tindlni; tht- «»i« wero Jtieh «s to e!e«r!y ■ hhow th»t HackHt «'tnd in i^-nor-J win', mkl tU»t Ut»ttfeld not fchig i.he impqrter would mitui-ally niavti xiw« tin? quos'ion of duty Wiy enn|.s;(Ler«l;on — ti* why Bhottld lie? j U'e do not: proponu enftrj:!;!;} tui--tltr "n the f«et» uf tbt o»in>.. What I we wflnt to di-cnvi.r u—.wfaftt u,:io<i c I the Proelda it i:. Itirtp, no j .iit.'Ctt'lvrtiidUii'.mcasaaiiLv ( I l id LIKIDet i ;;' Hi" 'unit! .it'.u J-.'S I pectiiV* nii-l liw abiding fwsoii n .tliibi'i!;,^,.iP(i, r u| oK<iK» ,-f .sini|ffL I J, ' Iko :i hup'-* «u p-j.y iul ■

pwtif-tua bv th« (Viectftr of o<»s--tC- w.'.li bsve be»*o amply &.&.- ou-nt to eliaruf t!is mutat io. t!» __tUf*c£*'Vt of _'t jrn e- Lorirernul• I i!tt I'rc*.^-•! tii M» tev-iesa desi:« for not- r;etj as th» protector of {•nfctc t!«.,re's, apparently d->? 3 not can a s'.r__ whost rejuUiioa , :it*y bv cmwdgtd by his ovst o.lkiliutloes ua rc_____ that when * ?3 J : .-gi».»fji as the | one refertecj t"> i< mr.te— even if <h' ».c".s-d reivin is !i-»q.:i:t&i as i:v. l'»I* fn^tastT — a;e yt.Lj wiij »ay thai hf e%- \ cipf-'I by » nirack) tff'Ctel t-v ;;> e.Ule i.e, *.r his Go nflnPn ■ ci'-i'iireme. 'i here U ii"t'»ing toeinvir.ce u* thr.t ihn Pravlsnt wiw | reAily eetiMtod tiy zm! V"i (It his , ti'ity-- Oa the other b«n-t tpb hiva 1 reason to belie-. ■: that pent&ial »iK>- i j tivs ondeYtty his actinn in th;i in- ! st.i:.i • of v. iii.)i tt4 shall have more j to sav ar.on. I" ' ; I _____________