THE SAMOAN TREATY.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 454, 15 March 1890, Page 5

THE SAMOAN TREATY.

ITS RATIFICATION. ACTION OF UNITED STATES. Our readers will probably remember that the affairs of Samoa and its future government were settled some months ago by the treaty formed ao Berlin by the representatives of England, Germany, and the United States. This treaty, the terms of which have already appeared, was of course subject to the ratification of tho several governments, and some considerable delay took place before it was ratified by the United States Senate. The other day, however, a cablegram appeared stating that the treaty had been agreed to, and Mr J. D. Conolly, Consul at Auckland for the United States, has received the following cablegram from his Government: —“Send the following to Mr Blacklock at Samoa. The treaty is ratified. Exchange will be effected soon in preparation to its enforcement. You may join simultaneously with the German and British Consuls in orders restricting the sale of firearms and the liquor traffic, in defining the municipality election districts and in concerting with the Samoan Government bo fix a date for beginning the collection of taxes and customs, and provisionally appointing collectors. ---Blaink.” Tho authorities will now be able to proceed at once to order tho government of the country on the basis agreed on in the treaty.