THE Samoa Weekly Herald. AND Municipal Gazette SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27.

Samoa Weekly Herald, Volume 3, Issue 9, 27 February 1897, Page 2

THE Samoa Weekly Herald. AND Municipal Gazette

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27.

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Mr. 11. I>. Outbid hMAcceptn] «li ii(.|nillllni»tll ill TuIIJTII, Iltlll It'HVIH {of tliDtv l>y nr&t btonnivr, The next iltuic* of ibo " t'nitrr 60" riiili, will iiikf pbtoa ou Tiii'Mlay ncvt aUrdi iluil, in llit.l'ubtic Hull.

There are going to be some great alterations in Commercial circles slinrtly. We should like to tell all ire know but cannot do so.

Mr. Murrny left yesterday morning on n trip around Upolu with, a view to collecting taxes and transacting other business.

The " Concordia Club " held nn informal dunce on Saturday night last, which was well attended, and at which an enjoyable evening wart spent. Owing to pressure on our space caused by the important character of the cable news, vre are obliged to leave out our leading article and other matters of interest.

The rise iu the price ot'eopra ought to be welcome news to our local traders. Let us hope it will continue elevated.

The Apia Church Choir showed a marked improvement last Sunday evening owing to the recent introduction of new blood.

The usual monthly racetiag of the Municipal Council will bo held on Wednesday next, ■when there will be much of importance to discuss, principally the leper ordinance.

temptation, nud already the young men and maidens, nud many who arc old enough to know better are in active training. We intend to nominate one of those to represent ourselves.

Although not yot officially . announced the nppointment of Mr. W. L. Chambers as next Chief Justice or Samoa is considered absolutely certain, and also that he may be expected iu April.

We have boon informed of the existence of two more lepers in the Municipality, both of whom have been busily employed in carrying: stones, ami otherwise fuisistfhs at the huilding of the Apia native Chnrch. The St. Louis Plantation Company have secured the lease of a suitable piece o' land nt Falefa and will begin operations at ouce. Wo wish the members every success iu their

We are glad to sec the London ! - Mission Society taking such a strong n interest in the Leprosy question and ! s are certain their efforts thereupon will be for the interests of all Samoa, j The Tuviuni arrived in good time on I . Monday morning hist and left early j on the "same afternoon. She broughtr three passengers for Samoa, and 70 : . tons of cargo. - ,| The Taufusi " Quadrille Club "< has jextended its operations, and is con.- ! ' stantly iner<'nsiug in popularity. We have received a copy of its rules, which, though simple, might with great advantage be followed by those who manage other festivities of a more pretentions character. A bowling mateh took pine*, last evening between the members of the Gorman and English Bowling Clubs. We had gono to press before the result , was known, but we prophecy that the members of the German Club will win " hands down. 1 ' A person in town had occasion some dnys since to register it letter in the local Post Office- Herecfived a re-I ceipt in pencil—Complaints in this respect have before been made. As the cost of printing proper receipts is so ! little we insist upon it being done so ! that the public will be satisfied. The Zealnndia arrived on Thursday morning last nt four o'clock, with a small cargo and two passengers (Mr. and Mrs. Hill) for Samoa. After taking in a large quantity of copra, the vessel left for San Francisco at 10 a.m. There were a few passengers from Sumoa, principally tourists. Ono of the most pleasing features in relations to the forth—coming colebrntion in connection with the nnnvorxry of Queen Victoria's Accession will be Consul Cusack-Sniiths treat to tho children of Apia. This, iu our opinion will bo by far the best item of u long programme. A great broach of tho quarantine regulations was committed on the morning whon tho Zoalnndiu arrived, by Captain lluyward, who was in* censed at the late arrival of the Health Officer asking some persons to come on board. Action has been taken against the hitter, while no doubt mime steps will be taken to show Captain Hnywnrd thnt ho cannot over ride the quarantine regula- , tions. There havo been many and loud complaints for a long time of the delay of tho Health Officer in reaching incoming steamers. Dr. Funk informs us that the delay is caused by the bouts crew residing a*. Matautii, whilo tho boat is kept nt Apia. Alter > tho crew is got together then tho boat " has to bo procured, anil taken fully ,'. half-a-inilo, before tho Health OlHccr I leaves the shore. On tho nrrival of Y tho Tuviuni although tho steamer had !l been in Bight for nearly two hours, * the boat diil not leave tlio shore until after tho vessel hud ruug to anchor. This is a mut'er which must be dealt with at next meeting of council. Tho Inst of a series of book keeping lessons in the Young Men's Institute was concluded on Thursday night. Some fourteen members stinted but at the conclusion only two eotnpluted the course. Tho lessons nro given every I Thursday night and paiua nru not • spared iu bringing forward thosa who o nle Inn kwunl iu their milium'ti.nl trniuiiig, A new Ulrica will bo commenced next Thursday when an enrollment of >-Indent., will 1... uiuiln for the ensuing six month*. The , work is not routined tu book keeping '' but embraces general instruction on any matter* of commercial interest. An iiiMnntivo losaon waa given on i" Thursday Inst on I'romiaory notes, r Clteqne*i itA Hills of Exchange, their values nnd how to deal with them.

Mr. Gurr the Natives Attorney for ; w Samoa, has stepped out of his Goveru- j aient office and Joined Mr. Davidson for ! ". the practi' e of law in the Courtsof Sa- ) »- moa. Mr. Davidson is u recent arrival in Samoa but in all coses in which ho L has appeared he has shown himself most proficient in law and n good u . irator. Mr Gurr for the last rive years has been pleading tlto causes of w Samouus iu the land cases before the ~ Sam >nn Land Commission and the . Supreme Court of Samoa, nud the eI local practical experience he has ob- a) turned, and the general knowledge of l ' (he country and the- Snutoaua which " he possesses make with his partner a C itrong and efficient law partnership. JHardly was the ink dry on the daily C newspapers which recorded the death J." jf Sir John Thurston, Governor of tl Fiji and High Commissioner of the Western Pacific, this week, Mum the ".' Rev. Shirley Baker was off hick from c , Auckland to the Friendly Islands as "j", fast as the Union Company's Island ' ' steamer would carry him to his erst- VJ while darkey subjects. It now remains J? to be seen what cbwnges will occur in the kingdom of Tonga as the result of \ Mr. Baker.s return to the scene of his forme.- Uigurs. The "* Premier of " Tonga is a man who had made Tonga " a model South Sea community, with a ( ' native rac.i equalling their M-hite neighbours in education and the accessories " of civilisation, and even after he was so V" summerarily ejected fron the Friendlies, and in fact all the Western Puctic, a , by Sir John Thurston souh? years ago, the. Islanders continued to advance under the prudent rules be bad initi.-i- . ted for their political guidance, It. is, " morover, pretty wellknown that Mr. '; Baker during bis -exile' in Auckland Jj practically guided the councils of those \r in power in Tonga, and though he was nut present at Nukualofa in person, his influence was felt there in hardly " diminished force. No'v that the High ! | Commissioner of tlie Pacfic, whose pow- , ers were far more autocratic and farreaching than those cf any colonial ' Governor, is dear], the only bar to Mr. " linker's return to Kim; George's tropical isles is removed, ami we may yet " see the'white chief of Tonga flourishing " nqnin in royal state, 'monarch of all he ? surveys' in the Friendly Islands. * I Star. \ ,: v ' t By the last mail we notice that I Harold M. Sewall, Republican, son of i Arthur W. Sewall, was on January 9, t elected a member of theSState-legi- t lature, to nil a v-ancanry. 1