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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3807, 27 September 1883, Page 2

Rei'ereinu to the alleged desire of tho Samoans to have their islands annexed to New Zealand the Auckland Herald has tho following:—" Our population is not yet so redundant that wo have any need to look for a place for our surplus people. Neither tho climate nor tho industries of Samoa would bo attractive to Europeans. But under administration from New Zealand, which is the British community most closely connected with Samoa by position and by commercial relations, there would be stable government nnd a large increase of productiveness. The rapaciousness of Europeans would be checked, while legitimate commerce would be promoted. There would be no possibility of such questions of conflict between the races arising as have arisen in New Zealand. In the evidence given by Sir Arthur Gordon before a Commission, and laid beforo tho Supreme Court at Wellington in the case of Hunt v. Gordon, there is a picturo of . the state of anarchy which Sir Arthur P* found existing on his first visit to tho Islands. If Europeans could be kept out of Samoa then it might bo considered whether anything should be done, but within a few years British Governors and officers have had .several times to interfere. Colonel Stcinberger was taken away by a British man-of-war, and Mr Hunt was removed by Sir Arthur Gordon on the pica that ho was dangerous to the peace and good order of the country. Mr Hunt has just recovered damages for his deportation, and we are likely to have a series of such occurrences. Samoa, we have no doubt, would gain by a union with New Zealand. It would gain a stable government; it would gain peaco amongst its tribes. New Zealand would gain a step towards the position which will be of prime importance to her—namely, that of being the emporim of the archipelagoes of tho Pacific. Commercial intercourse with these islands must in the future be tho mainstay of.this colony. They .are thickly peopled, and in the future will take from Now Zealand all manufactured articles, returning to us raw material for consumption or for manufacture here, or for re-export to London.