SAMOAN AFFAIRS.
In " L'Ocdanie Frangaise," of June the 11th, received by the s.s. Janet Nicoll, there is published the text of the treaty entered into between the King 1 of Samoa and the King of the Sandwich Islands, to which reference has already been made in our columns. According to the journal warned, the ratification of the treaty was * followed by a vigorous counter - demonstration on the part of the Germans. The Vice-King, Tamasese, having been induced not to sign the troaty, the officers of the German warship Adler, then in Apia Harbour, presented him with a new standard, closely resembling the Royal Standard of Germany. The unfurling of this banner was the signal for the firing of a royal salute from the guns of the Adler. Not much importance is, however, attached to this action, which, divested of the inevitable bounce and brag, simply amounts to a protest for the preservation of the status quo in Samoa, pending the decision of the International Conference that is to meet in Washington shortly.
" Punch " says that) if the genuineness of the Parnell letter can be disproved tho •' Times " ought not to be known henceforth as Jove, the Thunderer, but as Vulcan, tho Forger.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 211, 16 July 1887, Page 3 (Supplement)
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202SAMOAN AFFAIRS. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 211, 16 July 1887, Page 3 (Supplement)
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