Local and General News.

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 18, 16 February 1889, Page 2

Local and General News.

The IT. S. 8. Adams left Honolulu on the 15th of January for Sau Fraucisco. Tho U. S. S. Dolphin was coaling in Honolulu on the 20th January. As thi i vessel is ou a cruise, and as Apia is one of the stations she had intended to visit we may expect her at any time.

In war matters wo have littio or j nothing to chronicle. The German warships in the harbor have evideutly abnudoned the practice of intercepting native boats, and no hostile movement whatever lias been taken by them against Mntuaf«t since the arrival of thes.a. Waihuiou the 23rd of January lush Wo understand that, never.il visits of the German Consul so Mataafa's camp have taken place, when the Consul submitted to some of Mataafa'a chiofs proposals for concluding the war. The nature of such proposals we have not learned, but it is generally undei stood that one of thn conditions submitted by the (Jorman Cousul was the disarming of Mataafa'a forces. Mataafa did not sou the Consul himself, and when his c'tiefs explained this condition to him ho declined to accede to it. We have cince learned that amne arrangement ha* been como to Letwoen the German Consul and Mataafa, that no action on either aide was to take place until further advices shonld be received, Mataafa promising to do his best to prevent any raid on the German plantations by hi* people. A very neat and substantial paling fence has been erected around the London Missionary Society's .grounds in Apia (about 1$ acres). It is the intention, we believe, of the Rev. Mr. Hill to have the grounds of the Mission generally improved now that stray cattle can ba excluded. The fence haa improved the appearance of the ground considerably. Our attention haa been called to a paragraph in the Auckland Xmrnf

Bi*r, of January 21st. under the heading, “An emphatic denial," Ausw.r vm firm In reply to s Star reporter, concerning the oaring into n hoot by n s boat's crew from H.1.0.M.5. Eber, . that the only boat fired Into was an ! ammunition boat. We are requested to state that the boat referred to carried no ammunition. We are also informed that neither arms uor ammunition was found in any of the boats which were fired into or intercepted by the Ger-' mans since I heir fight with some of , Mstaafu’s soldiers. Those boats carried nulling but provision». H.1.0.M.5. Eber returned from; Auckland on Tuesday evening. Wo understand she brought some important telegraphic news. The Eber 1 brought no mail. We made enquiries if there were any late papers avail-; able .but wore not successful; cause- i • quently wo are unable to publish I rumors which uiig'*t not be confirmed. ' Mr. Henry Krause, son of Mr. P. H. Krause, was a passenger by the barkentine Constitution, which arrived hero from San Francisco on the 2ad instint. Mr. Krause has been on a visit to llio United States for some yours, and wo believe has become a citizen of that country.