The Samoau Question.

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 23, 23 March 1889, Page 3

The Samoau Question.

l'hoßisbopofDiinedin moved "That the report uf tho correspondent for the Pacific Islands ho received and printed with the proceedings of tho Synod." In speaking to the motion he referred to tlte present position of affairs in Samoa with extreme regret ami especially seeing the interest displayed by the leading SaittOaus at the time of his recent visit in having settled administruliiin among them. lie alsoreferp-d to tho solution of tho Church with Fiji and to lite correspondence that had parsed between the Bishopot London, Lord Kniit'ford, and himself. Lord Knut&ford had promised to endeavour to get no Order-in-Cottmil passed providing for authority I.(dug given to the Primate of New Zealand, but up to tie presen't no news has been received tliat sued) an order has been paused: In seconding the motion the Bishop of Nelson, i>r. Sutor. stated that having visited thelslandJ himself recently, and haiing now residing with him Mr. Wilson, who had been acting as Her Majesty's Consul at Apia for upwards of a year up to October last, he was possessed of recent informatio". ami it all led him to the conclusion that a great wrong had been done by the (MTinans. inasmuch as I hey hail etabroiled the natives, who before were p-ucahle, in war and that of a very Horions nature, He thought it concerned any Christian body like the Synod to protest in a ease like this « hen tho«M who had become Christians were forced again into their former barbarism'. Malietoa had nobly delivorod himself up that ho might prevent bloodshed, and this act of his had been grossly taken advantage of by tho Germans.