A Kind Of A Joke.
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From Our Own Correspondent APIA, December 30.
WHILE our worthy Chief of Police re cently was visiting a trader at an outside trading station of the West Coast, some Samoans with a pronounced sense of humour, thought the time op portune for a practical joke. While the Chief chatted with the trader at a late hour of the evening, they opened the store some 20 yards from the dwelling by means of a false key and got away with the till containing some £20 in cash.
No trace of the offenders has been found; but, while all Samoa enjoys the joke, the trader is mourning, as he has to stand the loss sustained by his firm.
Mr. P. pF. Boyd, colonial postmaster of Fiji, was a passenger on the “Mari posa” which arrived in Sydney on Janu ary 6. With his wife and daughter, he is on his way to England.