THE NATIVE WAR.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 4, Issue 178, 25 December 1880, Page 2

THE NATIVE WAR.

c.wonditioxal slrrkxueh of tiie | Itc-o-Taxk. ; Tin- Oi.n Paiitv \t Pai vn.i tu hi-: Takk.n i\ mi. I'i.'.nn. T".i Mr.s Kit.:.!.!' at M u.i \. hit .]!i"fiii l .!fu.'li.tliist.ii\\'i-.lii-.-(liHtli:!t llm ,v tiuu iif tin- Old I'artv which luul I'm Mtm- time Ikimi lienum-il in l>.v llm Klujr forces in'ur l.aim, Saudi, list■! siirreiideTi.'il mi the previous Monday. It appears that llic hoscigers liaviii}.' learned Unit the ltil-o-touc wore'getting supplies hv sea mitler rover of night, and were thus enabled to protrarl their defence, made niT.iug"iiieut.s on Siitmilnv la-t with tin' il.-.-t from Maiiou'o i i blockad" thi.' const line omKisito the forts of their opponents. When thi' Itii-ii-tuiui perceived thai tlii-v were utt.-ily Ik-hiuk'.l in they sent ileltijnitiM mi Siimliiv to llm King purty desiring thin hostilities >lioiild cense. A.fti-r soniP consideration it war. resolved l>\ Maliotoa's followers thai th.-v would iiicel ilie wishes of thi' Old I'nrty, provided th" hitter agreed hi an imeiiiiditioiial surrender. Thusc terms were iMili-iftl hard, but were IlllilllllMv HSSellf.'ll I". Utlll nil MollllllV til" Old l'avtV, inelndiiig ini'il of ill" Itit-o-tan.T and smut' pruiiiitirnt child's uf Alua and Anna, marched out of tin- forts, 'delivering up their units in a guard—"fiia-pnpaliigi." Over ••illll Dili's, .1 limits, '-> canoes, and an immense uisnint of unlive property »vit nccureil liv thi' victorious side All eyewitness d'cseribes th iditinn of tin' heleagtuired fot sas Ihi'V Hunched mil of the fort as miserable in thi' extreme. Many of them were mere skolct ins. having subsisted fir weeks on roots, &,:, and livi.'d in hol.'s ourr.iivo.l in tin;"around. After the surrender it v,as decided hv th ■ Kiiii? forces to iiiukii tin- westerly circuit »f Sivaii, and. coming along; thi' south .-id", tak" thu Old I'artv. n hv Iving at I'.ilaali. in th" Hank. Wc understand that Munsna, u ilwithstan .ling the reverses siistaiui'd hv' his party, " muscls resistance to th" hiltt "tid. I'm! we hop" that wiser counsels will pi"viiil. and that this war which is d 'riniatiiig th" native population and ruining ill" prospects iff :Vi VII TS 111 til" t-roil]: VI 1 j. 111'. ".mi" to an "'ml. \V" tru.-t that foreigners in our midst who haw nnv int •vi'.-t with th" natives will as,, all their intlucuee t,i hnica stoji put to th" pri'si'tit iiiihiippy strif".

On Thursday aft 'i-muii nhnut •'! n'cloik. a; a bo.il beloiigiiig to l-'ali'iipumi wasneariujf the shore close to the premises of the liiiidon Missionary Sicietv at Mahia. ii was | ,,u„ced noon by -one- Ataa people who were lying in ambush, and two of tin; occupants, —.1 sick man who had been brought to Mahia for medical aid. and his brother who was tending him.—decapitated. Of th her parries in the lent, three' men escaped seaward, while three women and a child were rescue I bv the mis-ioiinries. After the skirmish was over the body of the sick man was taken westward in llm boat which had been captured: the other headless bndv lav in the sea for some lime l„,t was removed « stwar.l in I).-. Tiirni'i- mid the other foreign missionaries at Midiu.-did all in their power to prevent the outrage recorded above, reminding rlm'Ariiaus tluit the Mission land was sacred, but without avail. The Suimiiiiis are evidmitlv retrom'adiug : A few years ago nil eluiri'-h mid mission ],rope:-tv was looked up m as siicri'd, bill this state of affairs is now ni an end.