I do not say it is true, I say it goes uncontradicted; and there is one peculiarity of our officials in a nutshell,--their remarkable indifference to their own character.

From the one house to the other extends a scattering village for the Faipule or native parliament men.

In the days of Tamasese this was a brave place, both his own house and those of the Faipule good, and the whole excellently ordered and approached by a sanded way.

It is now like a neglected bush-town, and speaks of apathy in all concerned.

But the chief scandal of Mulinuu is elsewhere.