SAMOAN NEWS.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1549, 5 February 1879, Page 3

SAMOAN NEWS.

[Prvss Sjs4‘4*sss3 Wis’C.] Auckland Pebr ary J. The Ariadne brings Samoan d-.tes to January 25 h I ho r aima and Laipula party ere endeavoring to overhaul the Malietoa parly and civil war is imminent. The former have offered a- p;-si Ton under Government to the head of the d aliotoa party. Foreigners arc warned by the local press not to interfere on the part ot tno Govern moot for fear of exasperating the other side to hi ,-odshed. Malietoa has been proclaimed King of Samoa. Laima proclaimed him. An -American General, Bartlett, lias been asked by Tuirna and Laipula to accept the position of Premier, ft is believed he will accept it. Private advices from f ondon state that Sir A. Gordon, Governor of Fiji, returns with increased power.

The If, v. 8. H, f avis, of the London Mis-sion-vy Society. ha u nr iv d '! T‘ wife of Captain Turnbull suddenly re 0 e-ed sight af ec ten years’ blindness. ’! h recovery w sea sed bv tb« shock sustained in lading down a flight of stairs. 'ntell gence was received of the death of C iptain Has rifling, formerly of the German war shin Augusta. Intelligence has been received that at Pentecost, the natives killed a European and two natives of the schooner May Queen. The crews < f the Beagle and schooner Sibyl landed to puui'h the murderers. 'I he mate of the Sibyl c une sud lenly upon thr o natives. One of them aimed a vio ent blow at the mate’s bead, which ho partly warded off wi h Hie snider, receiving a severe scalp wo nd. The mate drew his revolver, and shot’lie native b tw on the ey s, but the ball glanced <ff ’! he savage aimed a second blow at the mate, who warded it with his left arm, which was thus disabled. .Assistance came, up, and they fired two hills into the savage’s side, but he escaped into the bush. Next day the natives reported his death. At Esnirito Santo tho natives tired on tho schooner May Anderson without effect A correspondent of he Auckland “ Star,” wr ti g from amoa or. 2!>lb January, says “ A tr j.ty between Germany and Samoa was signed yi s’erda.y aft moon by the high contra etiug parties. N. H Weber, German consul, signed on behalf of Germany, and appointed representatives signed on the part of Samoa. I have not seen tho treaty yet, but it is said not to differ greatly from that with the United States, except that it has a proviso that laws and taxes affecting German intern-1-< shall not be made or imposed without consulting the German authorities.