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Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 116, 20 December 1879, Page 2

On Saturday morning last the steamer Sudsob returned to harbour from Vavau, oringinga quantity of coal for the Germuu ship of war Bismarck. Whilst being towod out of the smnll harbour, on Saturday last, tho schooner Tongatubu was caught by a squall of wind which caused her to-foul nitji the German ship of war Bisuinrck. The Tongntabu had her main boom- nnd gaft' carried away, and other slight damage doue. - The schooner Mary Anderson arrivod in port, on Sunday last, from a labour-recruit-ing voyago amongst the islands of the Now Hebrides. The following is the report of <Japtaiu Schultz :—Left Samoa on the 29th of July, and had a passage of ten days to Havannah Harbour. Endeavoured to get ■a boat's crow, but partly through the planting season and-partly in cqnaequeuco of some men belonging to that place having lioeu killed as.-boat's crews I tried in vaiu. After four days left Sandwich and had three days' calm to begin with ; tried to get u boat's crew at Api in vain, and then came to the conclusion to work the boats with the (Tew. Worked Ambryni without success; worked Penticost, recruiting 2. Went, when twenty days out to Aurora, set rigging up and watered. Proceeded to Santo •aind.worked the leeside nnd recruited sixteen more. Working round Cape Cumberland ouo Penticost man got mud and killed Ino men and wounded two. In the attempt to take him he was killed. He had charge of the hold armed witli u sharp tomahawk, and as soon as anybody went down he made i'or iiim and tried to kill him. Put back to Hiivauuah Harbour expecting to find a man-of-war there but found none.' Proceeded again to the cruising ground, and worked every island in the group with very little success. Food was so plentiful that the natives, upon our refusal to buy, threw it away. According to ship's log the boat was seventy-two days recruiting, and all we succeeded in getting was 63. When three months and 6 days out from Samoa, we started for home with what we had, via Sandwich. Wooded und watered here and started for Samoa had a passage of twentyeight days; experience nothing but calms, gales, and rain ; arrived as above stated. 'lhe topsail schooner Gael returned to barbour, ou Sunday last, after being absent a little over two months, amongst the New Hebrides Islands, where she succeeded in recruiting 101 labourers for the plantations of Deutsche Haudels und Plnntngen Uesollscliufl, On Tuesday last the schooner Midge took her departure for Auckland, via tho Tonga group, , The three-mast schooner Agnes Edgcll took htjr doparturc, on Tuesday last, for a eruis > amongst tho Solomon nnd New Hebrides groupß, in search, wo behove, of labour. Tho schooner Vaitupu-le-Mele arrived in harbour on Thursday last, from tho Kllice <lroup, with a full cargo of island produce.