THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 4, Issue 177, 18 December 1880, Page 3

THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS

--*- - [Jiiiropnw Mull. Amjnst 13.] Mr. Alderman M'Artluir, M.l'., i busying himself with (lie ull'uivs of :n South Sea Islands. He has .r<>t Mi (Jrunt DnlF to promise ihat he will la; upon tne table of tlio House it' I lommon the correspondence whb-h took place he t.\vecn Mr. ]Ms Vcenx, Administrator o Fiji, and the Secretary of State fur tliColonies relative to the detention of ilv eonlio ship Leonidus at Nasovs in Maj Is.*)!), in consequence of no nntlireak o sniull-pox on board ; and has also askei for any correspondence which might line taken place relative to the estalilishmen of a joint consular authority in the island of Samoa and to further arrangements fo the government of the group. He nisi wished to know whether Her Majesty's Go vein men t had received my coniniunieatioi from tho King of Samoa asking for ad vice as to tho govern nent of his islands Sir*'. J hike in rcplv, informed the lion irentli'inan that the King of Samoa liai asked the advice ivid assistance of Hel Majesty's Gnvernni -111 in the government of his islands. T.ie affairs of Samoi were still occupying the attention of Hei Majesty's Government, and it would b( premature to lay upon the table the cor rospondenco referred to till it could b, presented in a eo nplete s'.iajie.