Strange News From Samoa.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 58, 10 February 1885, Page 2

Strange News From Samoa.

GERMAN MILITARY- DISPLAY IN • THE IBLAND.

' V TJNITED PKESS ASSOCIATION.)' Auckland, Feb. 9. A Samoan correspondent, writing under date January 28th, says : — After the mails, which wero brought from Now Zealand and San Francisco, had been lauded from the schooner which brought them on shore from a steamer, a force was scut on shore from a German man-of-war which is m port, and paraded the streets of Opia m order to intimidato the Samoaiia. Next morning four boat loads q f men were landed aqd look possession of a piece of land where the King'fffsideil, erected a flagstaff, Jand built a sham redoubt. Webber, who is at the head of a big German firm here, scut a number of coloured laborers to do work, while ♦ 1 man uVin innun Il»i/4»l1 f w\m thn mnr\

i-wjar • furiii»iK«J the working party >r..tbction hy posting sentries all round. ■"< teuarada w^nt on till sundown It a stnttul "here that the arrival of Mr John Lundon has lioeri the immediate causa uf this nutter. At any rate the authorities here have requested Mr Lundon to take despatches to that portion of the natives who are most likely to bo influenced by the Germans. He started with an interpreter m a whnTeßoaTone v iff lit, and4hepartv reached their destination next mormng. Mr Lundon had a long, conversation witlKMasivthe kittr maker. He told Mr Lundon, m the presence of a. largo meeting, Sthqt he would go to New Zealand with him, and would siffn. the petition drafted byMcToleat Sir Ocorxc Grey's req nest. ThVpetitioii was sent to Lundon eigiiteen months ago ; but the persons m whose employ he theu was forbade him to get any sig-uatures'tllen-../Luudon. ga>e Masu the petition and he said he would got the missionaries to translate it.