Samoa.

Manawatu Herald, 8 April 1899, Page 2

Samoa.

• Lord Salisbury has accepted" the principle of the Tripartite Commission as proposed hv America for the settlement of affairs in Samoa.

The Powers interested" are now discussing whether the Commission will be ao advisory one or whether it should govern, daring an inquiry into the whole matter.

The " Argus " says the New Zealand's eagerness to get mixed up in the Samoan hostilities ia likely to cause as much amusemenh us admiration, per bap* more amusement. Some of her politicians, the " Argus " points out, have long wiahed that Simoa and Tonga might become the tropical dependencies of their colony. There does not appear any real occasion for the present off -r, for in Germany's angry mood it is exposed to the dangor of receiving a mischievous misinterpretation. If circumstances should arise anywhere in this part of tha world, saggastiflg that Great Britain should be backed by Australasian loyalty, the seven colonies, the" Argus " says would stetid to the flag as^oine man, but i$ this instance i\ewZ -aland may have b?en moved by h«r ambition for territorial expansion.