I have hitherto refrained from mentioning the single paper of our islands, that I might deal with it once for all.

It is of course a tiny sheet; but I have often had occasion to wonder at the ability of its articles, and almost always at the decency of its tone.
Officials may at times be a little roughly, and at times a little captiously, criticised; private persons are habitually respected; and there are many papers in England, and still more in the States, even of leading organs in chief cities, that might envy, and would do well to imitate, the courtesy and discretion of the _Samoa Times_.

Yet the editor, Cusack, is only an amateur in journalism, and a carpenter by trade.

His chief fault is one perhaps inevitable in so small a place--that he seems a little in the leading of a clique; but his interest in the public weal is genuine and generous.

One man's meat is another man's poison: Anglo-Saxons and Germans have been differently brought up.