AFFAIRS IN SAMOA. THE GERMAN OCCUPATION. OPPRESSION THE NATIVES. Auckland, March 27.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 251, 31 March 1888, Page 4

AFFAIRS IN SAMOA. THE GERMAN OCCUPATION. OPPRESSION THE NATIVES. Auckland, March 27.

Mk '. Y. C\>u i j-iL.-uf Hi' liuu ct Ku-cll and Campbell, iohuloi-*, ictuined to Awtk ] snathe morning per Wauarapa, afU i a lengthy visit to Naniu i on legal bunne-,-. A St vn lopc-i ter him shoi tly nfti'i hi; .mnalio (hi: puipo-^* ot obtaining Jiiforin.ition legaidnig the condition 01 ai.an- in "aiiiDii undei the Cuinau otni[)ation. \]i Camplxl , w )>o leeuved our icpie^ent iti\<. w ith hi-, u-ual couiLl->, in 1 tply to a pielmnnaij lnLu) loiration i-,\\d that hu had o-inu Hum .Samoa \ Xt b>'!nov. Kopoil.oi : How do ihe bamoanb appear to u-lish thu (.ci man uile'' Mr Liunpbeil . Not at all. The •!orni.m^ tcpoit thai tin* people aie con tent.t'd, and that TdiiuM^e had ie ccntly made a tuumphant prouic--tlnou'jfh too eoiintrv. 'J hi- I doubt, at an} i,ito 1 did not hi- a! anvtlnny ot n. '1 he pi oplc, howc\or, ha\o lieou very much in l,imid<ited at Ihu !i! ir li lunded action oi the (<ei man-. Hepuitui )t-t<, day published a hUlcmt n!. lhal a pod ia\ had been loMed by ihu -Samoan < -o\ eminent. AJr Campbell \c~ ; Uial \va^ im pu^ed m >i(ncmlKi lai»l, and lut», J bcliovt, been collected. Since tlien, houe\er, n new tax, called a th.slncl <a\, liai> been levied and i~> due in July next, i! amounts to ."r.47,000, anJ tho nut'nci "Will in many instance^ be unable to pay it without moit.ga^in^ their lands. It is feudally believed that it ih imposed a(. Ucinuin instigation, to enable the ({ontunto get hold ot the kind That is thoir usual policy at .Samoa. "\\ hen a moitgago falK duo the mortgage lorcclot-cM on die due date. Reporter : Uon do the British und Aineiican CoiibiiK appear to regard the action ot iloinmny '! Mr Campbell : They au, carrying on a continual correspondence v\ ith theiv re bpectivc UoM'iinnunts. Theio is geneial dibgust at the supini'iich'-j ot the British C.ov eminent in neglecting 1 to semi down a British man o'-war to look after the interests oi Btitish .subjeeLs. The Americans seem likely to make ;i «tand. Their war.slnp the Mohican, Captain J)a>, lb at hamoa ,]m~t/ now. Some trouble has arisen about tho pilot station whieti JNlr fSewall, the American (Jonsui-Ciencial, held in trust to t-ati.^ty a claim of McArthur and Co.. ot Auckland, auamst aliadei. T'hc station li.ul been occupied In the Municipal < government ot Apia, bnl. when tho (.ieimau rule hin ceeded that of the municipality Mv Sov,nll gave the oceupunfcol tht. station notice to quit. Taiua&ese'b Government then onteredthe property and handed it over to Becker tho German

Consul and placed the .seals of the German con.su lute on the dooi.s ot the buildings. Reporter : Surely, it cannot be true that the Germans have declared the playing of the game of cricket by the nation i\n illegal '! Mr Campbell: It is quite tine. The reason for the action was that, the Germans took. ud\antago of the.se gatherings to plot against the Government. 1 presume >ou do not Know that in a Samoan cricket' match theio will !>o inty or si\ty playeis aside, and our niateh will probably last hc\eit»l days. The .stoppage ol' (lie game is approved of by many Europeans ' with anti - Gorman sympathies who held that ,->ueh gatherings weie conducive; to idleness and linmoiaiity. The ttumoans aie \ciy loud ol the j^ame and pl.i> it well llepoi ti r : i*o you think t licit i-^ any danger ol bloodshed V Air Campbell : The natiw- tin eaten ominously that (hey will shout Taniase^e and so bnno mallei.-, to a ci isi-. There an- two ( Joi n.an Wai -hips theif ivi'-t now, the Olga and (he Adln and thfii dews probably total 500 men. All the n,iti\e-.aie aimed and I don i- think (hat llit' («ei man loire could subdm- tin. .Samo.nis i) war bioke oul. Tho forest 1 - at Sainip aie lmpcnetr.ible jungles and though the Gcrman-. mit»ht de.-Uoy the village, they could not tollow tho natnes into theii )>ush ictieal'-<. llepoit'i- l>oos the German occupation inleiieie with liiitish trade 1 ' Mr Campbell : Ye.- ; and with Ameiiean ti.ule, too. An aihdavit has been tiled at tho Buii^ii ( onsidate to the oiled tint, some names w< ie thic.itened by a (iciman tiail'-r with depoitalion it the} ti ided with thcßutish, and [he alhda\it all<'i;e^ that the llneat was icpeated by a tu'ini.in oilicer. Attei a !)iii f eonxe^ation en otlar topif> the lepoiler thanked Mi ( ■inipbell, ami \\ itlidie.iV.