The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-03-11
REGULATIONS.


A series of regulations is pub.
lishcd.
The first prohibits alienation of
lands by Samoans to foreigners,
whether by sale, mortgage, or other
wise. Exceptions will shortly be
allowed for town lots at Apia, and
the leasing of agricultural lands for
limited term of years.
The second says no arms and am
muniton shall be imported into the
islands Of Samoa, nor there he sold
to, or bought, or bartcred by, any
Samoan subject OF other Pacific
Islander, under penalty of fine of
500 or imprisonment not exceeding
six months, or both fine and i'm
prisonment, to any Samoan or Paci-
lic Islander found guilty, the arms
and ammunition to he forfeited to
the Government.
The third, with the same penalty
as in the previous case, prohibits
the selling and buying of intoxicat-
ing drink to Samoans and Pacific
Islanders.
The fourth forbids riding on horse
back through the main street of
Apia faster than at walking pace,
offenders being liable to fine of
$40 or in default Imprisonment not
exceeding 10 days.
VARIOUS ITEMS.
A respectable citizen IN letter TO
the Times exposes gross blackmail-
ing practices on the part of the ma
tive police.
The L. S. S. Adams left Apia on
two occasions lately on account Of.
threatening weather indications.
An Apia firm is buying arms from
the natives, who are Offering them
at a very low figure.
Vaisigago river has repeatedly
overlooked its banks, lnterrupting
even the ferryboat by the force of
the current. Much damage has
been done to property. Mr.. Ed
wards formerly of Ilonolulu) lost a
slice off his land about chain wide.
AbnOrmally wet weather had pre-
vailed for two weeks.
Natives have been making money
by recovering portions of the pro-
pellcrs of the wrecked mcn-of-war.
One piece of composition brought
$50.
a correspondent at Itu tame,
Savaii, informs the Times that the
natives in that district take little
notice of the recently-issued pro-
carnations. They say, sob, the
white men tell lots of lies" They
evidently believe the proclamations
have been sent around by some
white men. The natives of this place,
the correspondent says, are very
lazy. They have planted little food
and are eating up the cocoanuts, so
that there will be very little copra
to be obtained there next year. All
they talk about is cricket playing.
A farewell dinner was given to
Robert Louis Stevenson the novelist
Feb. 3 on the occasion of his de-
parture for q few months. The ia
nous gentleman paid high tribute
to the Samoan climate, giving it Gre
dit for the best health he had enjoy
cd for long time. 1t is said that
Mr.. Stevenson has bought property
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home there.
Asi, one of the chiefs who accom-
panied Malictoa in his exile, has
lost his right hand by careless
handling of dynamite in fishing. lie
broke the law in using the explosive
for that purpose. Asi was one of
the most powerful fighting men,
which is given as the reason of his
deportation By the Germans.
The Catholic Mission has resumed
work on the large stone church be-
gun in 1884. 1t is l2G feet long,
SO feet wide, and 2G feet high, and
will have a tower of 80 feet.
A Chinese eper lately died at
Apia. lie had u native wife and
two children, whom the health All.
thorities have reported without signs
of the disease. A Samoan at Funu-
gamanono is reported to have lep'
rosy.
AN ENIIGRANT FROM HAWAII.
Geo. Glendon, an ex-membcr Of
the Hawaiian Legislature and fOl
some years teacher in the Hawai-
ian Islands, has written from Samoa
to Celsor Caesar Moreno, an cX.
Cabinet Minister of Hawaii, il
Washington. lie rccounts Il stor,
told him by Malietoa when the,
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