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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1714, 21 May 1886, Page 2

'There is .reason to fear' (writes th» ; Argus London correspondent) .thai; the resolve of the N«w Zealand" Govern- 1 'ineuttp open negotiations for the purchasobf German commercial interests m Samoa has been taken too 'late.' A scheme that was feasible, and 1 -that had muejv'ta reebmmend it •V»lven,Sir?l« f raiicis B.ell |r£f;;Bu-Bgestfcd it,.is how- discovered ; to be impracticable. German interfereiree m Samoa baa bean* pronounced of latW, and has'resulted m her slreijgth/ *riing her hoId T; -dver/ this peirl-of ; tlie Pacific; Some German v : genilemen~ largely interested m Siinroa met the Agent-General for ' New 'Zealand on March H, and' discussed the subject .witbihim, bnt the result of i he conver- " sition was the rev«rse of wtisf actory , and only confirmed Sir Francis Bell . in/his-, opinion that New Zealand's .opportunity, has beea allowed to pi\M, and thai it is the almost oortain destiny bf King Maliatoa to see his dominions pass under the sceptre of the Kaiser Whilljnlm» or his soir'Fritzy : ".''. : j ; •-.;