GERMAN INTERESTS IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 138, 29 May 1880, Page 3

GERMAN INTERESTS IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC.

The commercial cla-'.-c:. in Germany to the proud ad deNelcpmcul ■ I iti.;li■';■',. licrliu slews'(he Soniii iWill. !•■; !•• • Germany to have already attnie ••: n. ■.••• formidable dimensions than had 1--i-m at all imagined i« Germany, and journal, commenting on the figures made in the return, make no secret of tjie a..'i- ' ! surprise occasion ad by tho perusrd "I :iie same, it appeal's that in the year : ■•:■ German houses established in the "I laii-b exported goods from thence t.< tiie.i.-i' gato value of 7,021,0'.>')' marks, v■hi. '■■ '- considrreil very (rood. Thu group ■' islands with which Gorman merchant* arc more particularly concerned are I lie Tonga Mauds and'the Samoa islands, and lare it would appear, from the return* alluded to, that (remind merchants have in the import trade already secured almost, a monopoly ; for, although the total amount of imports into those lw . Groups in IS7B was uol valued ut uion tbnn 1 ..V.'o.'iOD marks, of that aiuoiuil no less than l,o*!)o,(300 marks' worth of good were imported by German firms. In I KiW the aggregate imports were not given a* higher than 74 f.OOO ; in H 74 they rose to 1,080,000 mark:-, of which S-W.OOO marks fell f I the share of German linns. On the other hand, exports from tli<>4u (Ireiip for Herman account amouiUed in 1878 to 8,570, +OO mark:.. Of tbnt sum ■1,100,000 marks represents tho amount of cotton crown on the Gorman phmtalions. Tho Govmans possess 100,000 acres of laud in tho Islands, of 'which only 5000 ncr< s are nt present cultivated. Thiis far they have yielded good returns, and cultivation is consequently to be extended until the entire urea is cultivated. In addition to cotton tho Gorman settlers propose to grow coll'ee, rice, tobacco, and sugar cane, and they ex peak to ruise remunerative crops, -r- Kuroptan Mail, March T2.