INTERESTING EXTRACTS.

Samoa Weekly Herald, Volume 1, Issue 2, 3 December 1892, Page 4

INTERESTING EXTRACTS.

[FROM HOME PAPERS.] LADY JF.KSEY. uoitD and Lady Jersey aro getting tired •>! Colonial life. Indeed! his lordship :> credited openly in Sydney fashionable circles with tho intention shortly co resign his appointment. Lady Jertibr has never boon popular in Sydney —does not take to their •' hupper r-'j !vles ;" and being of the learned •mier, has hold aloof from Society, in direct contradistinction to the Countess

• . Hopetoun, at Melbourne, who iB thoroughly ;u homo with all classes of the community. i.ast month Ijidy Jersey left for Samoa, and his lordship would have accompanied her, hut his Ministers hinted politely that his repeated ab3on.ee from Government House caused considerable dissatisfaction. As it was •.•nly a few weeks before that Governor Torsoy and his lady returnod to Sj-dncy aftot- a lengthened visit to the French ••ottlemont at Now Caledonia, it was only right that tho Antipodean* should speak up, and object to these frequent holidays.

THE DIFFICULTIES IX SAMOA. Berlut, Oct. 21. The Vossischo /fitting to-day conlirms the reports which have recently appeared tn the British Press regarding the disquieting situation in Samoa. Tho journal declares that the German ' Government is now convinced that the Shimon Convention was one of the

roatcst mistakes ever made by Ger- ; iau Diplomacy, and Omt all tho three Powora concerned in the Agreement, namely, Great Britain, the United £ tides, and Germany, are agreed that the present state of things is insupportable, and the Convention must lie umoiul-ed. Pending this, tho Vossische 'citung recommends the immediate ■ instruction of a cable to Samoa, so hat directions may be communicated tho Consuls without what is desi ribed as tho present fatal delay.

a. :.. STEVXSSOX. To interfere in the politics of a immunity which is under arbitrary »vermuent is always risky, as Mr. obert I.oais Stevenson is liegiuning ■ discover. The author of "Treasure 'land " had not long settled down in mioa before ho began, in beautiful uglisll, to uudtc things hot for .ts adiuistrators. Their replies were brief ■id rather contoratuous; but Mr. uvenson has pegged away. i:;uully considerable length, until they are oparently beginning to get tired. uo local newspaper, which is underwood to belong to the Government, is •'•'ong out for Mr. Stevenson's arrest

•'a person who moddlca with everything." Wo .should, of course, bo exceedingly sorry to see the creator of /.Inn Brock under look and key, iu Samoa or elsewhere; but wo cannot ho Wind to the literary opportunities of null an event. A Satuoan prison is juj odd sort of place—usually a liaruboo }iut whichan ontcrprisingcaptivomigh',; > .rry away on his hack. Mr. Steve" anun's description "f his incarceration ought to he very pretty rcaeUo'g ~9 _ pucioUy if n sentry were kept -outside Hitting on a barrel of guupowile r< which ho had orders to lire if the prisoner attempted to escape. STATE SECUKTtf. Borne of Bismarck's latest statements aro denounced nsfictic/a. TheVosaischo Zeituug calls them'Hmportdnt mistokos." His usaovtion that the late Kiuporor William wanted to annex part of Saxony iu 1860 and that aloltkc urged an invasion <jf France iu IHT.i nru both questioned. Ajnung the episodes Bismarck tells now is one about üßonnpartist agent, who, in 1871, came to hiiu during the negotiations iur peace and offered to go to Bordeaux with half u dozen resolute men and assassinate Gambctta and other members of the Provisional Govorment. Then tli- Emperor was to be refilled to France, the Qcrmaus holding the country until the empire hud been reestablished. Bismarck believed the projo* possible, but refused to agree to it, thinking a monarchical Franca mom dangerous U> peace tlian a rupuhlic. The newpnpors concur iu expressions of regret at the undignified character of Bismarck's utterances, JIF.BLIX'S DISTIIKSSEII l'OOll. With the approach of winter tho distress among Qui poor becomes nioro clamorous. A un>l> which collected in *"•■• oJ tbe poor quarters threatened to pillage the shops. Tiny threw a police npi ut into the > anal, whereupon u body of mounted police charged them and MOOred the streets. A boatmun luckily saved the ugent. A lurgo number of arr. sts harp been miule. LAMlTilv's LATMT FAB, Mrs. Langtry has added yachting to her fads. She bos just purchased Lord Ashburton's beautiful and swift steam Jrotiht Lady Mabel, now ut Cowos, after a 1 Dg cruise, with lus I/jrdslup and lately. Tin Ijidy Mabel is of r.llll tin burden, and uhuost new. Mrs. Lanrrtry is suid to have recently duel . I that, being imw forty years of Of it was timo idm begun to enjoy life instead of fouling away her money am time iu theatrical speculations. It is understood that she wilt spend a tK'i-.iA of tho umiing winter cruising in iio Soul b ...-ii.,. anil that in Urn interval .if her vacating trips she wilt dorr, man) tiine to tin- nn f and less to th logo, tier latest admirer is Lord ft' 'yii, nhii is said tn have, really J - p. her tilt- horse she proteuiffcLto j it, ii..iu biui. Whether the youirjki • .11 .Kiuny.itiv bar On hirynrht :i3f i ~,» it a IUOJtI tof some i uti.si'j-. »\