Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 20 April 1899, Page 2

Foreign.

SAMOA. Tba Sarao<to High Commissioners —Mi 1 0. N E E iot (Great Britain), Mr Tripp (United States), and Baron Desterb^rg (Germany) — have arranged to hold a confrrvnee in | Washington bsfore sailing for Apai. The Reichstag unanimously ap* proved Here von Bulow'a declarations in reference to Samoa. The American authorities consider r.he speech of Herr V>n Bulow. the German Minister of Foreign Affairs, which wa«* delivered in the Reichstag yesterday, as friendly and sensible. Corporal Foxworihy and Seaman Punt of the Realist, are making ,a (?ood recovery from their wounds at th* hospital. Soon after the Moana left for Samoa and San Francisco important j l^spa'ches were received from We lington to ba forwarded toSam>a Th« Post Office authorities com , municated with Mount Victoria and Cimiri, and on each flag station signals were hoisted requesting the mail steamer to return. Appvrently however, neither signal was observed from the Moana. A large quantity of rifla and Maxim ammunition in cisea was landed by the Elingamite from Wellingtrn and conveyed across to the defences at the North Shore, presumable to augment the local supply at the forts in case any should be required for Samoa.