AUSTRALIA AND THE SAMON TREATY.

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 41, 3 August 1889, Page 3

AUSTRALIA AND THE SAMON TREATY.

- ■ ♦ -' N>w that the Hamoaa qneatioa bat b-ea muM aw* the liae* laid <m by th# United Statea, it wO. vital* the nwrt few day* and aa mm m tha protocol ie eigned is Berlin, koM a thing of the Mat. Bat briar* U * relegated to the thing* that vara it auyfe worth while to rooaU aaireaav aUaoato which liulaattotiiMNi baa Uaa Kvau hat whiefa hat bad a powerful nf• rt in moulding th» pt.as.ut treary It will ba remarnhered that a ounaiiatioa, repi Heating Oarmany, Borland, and tha United State*, tat in Waeftmrtoa two yean ago f Jr th« purpoao ol adjuetuig thi* quwti.m, an 1 Mat it wai iraddan It terminated by tha withdrawal of tha O-miin Onrnrm-mioner. It vaa undwratoed at the tin»e that the inciminge of England were altogether iu rurom jf Gh?rmany*a claim in Samoa. About tha time the Prneideat appointed the Ut» Somoan P-irommi«-aioneta an incident happcnod iu If el- ' bourne which ovokod a sentiment in tii e Australian OoionJe* which, we an. ! actisii.-d, exorcised a powerful irflu- j •nee in changing tho attitude of Eng- ! iaid Ujj to that time Lapland xaa •j; tha Mirfuo* coldly paaoire, bat in '.

reality aoting with On the eva .if bia dopartura fri»m hfi-llioot ne tho Aiooriutii Hon F. Mt-Cjypiu, who waa onlertaiaed at a banquet giv«n by t'ir J.imea Mcßain, attpntioa to tb<<* imp>•Ranee"'of tlif .u iu.:hh ifi'ikn.l,. ti tho commarca oi th% 'J 1 .iiift« „:)(! „| f.j„, Unjtod 3ulc«. "Right in the track of that

cocim?rc6,'' lv« sai'l "li; cortair. groapa >i uiaiKlu of groat intor*at to both ouuatriw. America ii m.w etriring U» preauivb the aitunoiuy of iliosni»lanila but Auoti-ali.l ia ' siUut still and ailent all.' It would l>a deplorable it, in tho giro- and-tako game nu<x being playod oy Zar.p#UTi etati-amai., thp inooper.dencaolt!ir«oiut<'7oatingialandaah(/uld ha #u.:rlfic«d." Thu German Comtnie•toner to tbo <ixhibL'i<>u iamodlatcly lef: the hall, thus omphanising what bad juat beat aaid iu ihu pr.mdiic* of aha lit gu<-aia, among whom »■*;»• t'>« •aading stataamen of the ouloniaa The praai of Anatralia took tii" nabajct tp toataatty, and witlui. a aW; flora that tima popular seutiiaaat l>eoaine «iryataliiaad Tbo colonial Pariiauiente hurin? juet edjimmod. nil eyoa w«ra turnod t<< Ui<« Fndarai Omui'ii. '.hen about to a«m>uiulu in TaatDaiaa, ar.«!

; lUO lyilu.lu... S(IUUKill(( I'll S.I MIU > <JiOui*a, ad'•{tod a powerful adiri*»t«th«> . Or,i #n, clung upon tii« il'ieen %n>\ kvT Mi!!i**i».-. t. wtiutr.iu M'iatip.;; troutifw for th« "f thn in<]t)|iuitiit)iiiw ut llit) otttu 'tin ialui-dx, o:i(J if übtAMtay, lo ui<iko ad.iitiouai trout ; :«• for tha' mtrjiose. viewing with Ktixiety uiiJ in-ujijirolmti'iii the cm--lui-t -if Qwiuunv toward tlium Thia O'lrlrotw waa cables! t-> 'ho Qawn ami to the 8«t!««t«ry of Btatoof the ITuited •tatPfi. It is dpi>nrt*nt thai fr.m. that '.'ucneut tlic c uraeof Eiiitlunil, «hivh. ! a* recrnt ttveuts haro ahuwn, u moat aiiiioua tc conciliate and pluaae tboati i'-wit <oloaiea, was '.handed All that wo liuvo heard fruoi the Berlin Conferaiivs dhows this. England was not thi» ii!ly i>f QuriAttuy in '.hut conferouM Hf> *he xas in thu Washing* tun cur.fer<*n«'« Fli-r change of fi.mt id <iua •/-. t!i>> influence n| Austia-