THE SAMOAN TREATY.
OPINION OF THE REV. GEORGE BROWN. The inhabitants of the Samoan Group are apparently not very favourably impressed with the new treaty. The Rev. George Brown, who arrived in Sydney recently from the islands, says that the general impression at Samoa is that the treaty will not work, and' that is Mr Brown’s own opinion, unless the new Chief Justice is given some decided power. jMr Brown, however, thinks that the sooner the treaty (which has already been signed by the King) is put in motion the better, as there seems a probability of some trouble occurring among the natives. Rumours of plotting on the part of the Tamasese party were current all over the islands when Mr Brown was at Apia. A resident of Apia, writing to a friend in Sydney, says :—“ There are now little plots hatching over the islands again. King Malietoa had to send away some chiefs who had met to discuss matters of State, as they were on the eve of pitching into one another.”
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 475, 28 May 1890, Page 3
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173THE SAMOAN TREATY. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 475, 28 May 1890, Page 3
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