ANOTHER ACCOUNT. GERMANS BOARD AN ENGLISH BOAT. Apia, September 3, 1888.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 300, 19 September 1888, Page 3

ANOTHER ACCOUNT. GERMANS BOARD AN ENGLISH BOAT. Apia , September 3, 1888.

jNlatteia have been rapidly goii gfiom bad to worse heie, and the 'natives being unable to stand it any longer have broken out. Armed men are aniving hourly by hundreds from diticrent parts of tha group, and joining both parties. The Malietoa paityaie -gathering just behind the town in great numbers, and the Tamaseso paity are fortifying their headquarters on Mulinuu Point. Great numbers of nati\ cs formerly in favour of Tarna s ese have joined the Maliefcoa part} 7 , and if the (ierinan? did not interfere the present do jcuio Go-vernment-would soon be o\erthiown. Last Friday, Branded, at the head of about 600 Tamasese men, attacked u small party .of about 40 Mahetea people, a few miles back of .Apia. A fight took place and there weio three killed on both side- and several bounded. Now that the war hat> been started thero is no saying where or w hen it will end. All our lives and property are in danger and as there is now no neutial teiritory it is difficult to say how serious the disturbances may become to all Eiuopean i-ettlcrs and traders. It is hoped that the English and United States Crovcimr.eiiti will interfere and prevent a. state of anarchy ensuing. The acting United States Consul is undexslood to have despatched a cable message ! to his Government sppiising them of the ■ events that have transpired. Mr Sewall, the Con&ul, is at present in the United States, ha\ ing left heie on a sixty days' leave by the last mail steamer. I Am, September 4. As the mail i< jiiht closing, I add i line to say that the tiouble is moie thie.itening than ever. Large number^ continue to leave the Tamasese party and go over to the Malietoa side. We may Tbe in the middle of a great battle beftie night. International complications aie almost certain to result from the present outbreak of hostilities ; indeed, they have already been inaug'irated. This morning an English trading vessel \va& o\ei hauled and searched by a boat from one of the German men of- war in the harbour. Mr J. S. Campbell, the United States Consul at Auckland. has lecehed from the Acting Consul at .Samoa a cable despatch with reference to the trouble at the Islands, and has for yarded it to the authoiitie> at Washington. Messrs McArthur ha\e not leceived any intimation ftom their manager that the crew of the linn's vessels had been llltreated. Appaiently their letter h.id been posted before this happened.