THE SCHOONER OLIVE. DISPUTE AMICABLY SETTLED. SHIPS PAPERS RETURNED.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 429, 18 December 1889, Page 5

THE SCHOONER OLIVE. DISPUTE AMICABLY SETTLED. SHIPS PAPERS RETURNED.

N^Wb to hand from the Islands by the steamer YVainui, includes the intelligence that the trouble in connection with the Auckland schooner Olive has leen settled, tho di-putc proving to bo what may bo termed a " .South Hoa bubble." Tho trouble, io will be remembered, arose through Colonel De Coetlogen, British Consul at Samoa, oulering Captain Ross, master of the Olive, to comey bock to Wallh Island a number of pathos of that locility who lad foiced a passage to Apia on boaul the schooner. Captain ll">8 not nnicasonably denuured to taking the Inlanders back again free of cost, and tho Consul, finding that he was not obejed, letaincd the vessel'^ pipei?, which had in the usual course beejfcdopocitcd with him duiing the schooner's stay, there being no Ouscom house at Apia. Mr J. l\ McArtluir, a mou bor of (he firm of W. jMcAithur and Co., tho charterers of theOlno. ictuined jotteiday irom a butil)C^3 tiip to .Samoa and Tonga by the Wainui. He states that when lie Jeft Va\au tho trouble had been adjusted. Tho Olive had kffc ApLi for Va\au, without her papers, but ohe Consul, evidently ie considering hia decision in tlio case, sent on the papeis to Vavau, whete Captain Koss obtained them again. Tne Consul in thus returning the documents to the schooner has avoited considerable trouble. The Olive ia no^v on hei way up to Auckland with an Island cargo iioiv Va\au \ia Savage Island. The Wallis Islanders who caused all tho trouble are still at Samoa.