GOVERNING SAMOA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 120, 14 October 1914, Page 2

GOVERNING SAMOA.

COLO-NEL LOGAN'S SEAiFF. By Telegraph.—Per Pre»» Auucwtion. ' Wellington, Oototor 12. Captain 8011, who >s in charge of the central office at iSanmoa, is a son of tHio Won. H. D. iW.il. K..0., leader of the LegislatiTe Council. UupUin Bull has l'.ad a distinguished university career, and is An able lawyer. He as tJhe member for Wellington Suburbs in the House of ilteprusentalivus, but is not contesting the seat at the coming elecion. Captain Bell held a comimwaiou in King Edward's Horse in England. Captain Tottenham belongs' tk» a wrflJvnown family in England. He was in 1 the Britannia wi'.lh Lord Kdibojirne, commander of the PyraMiua, and Captain HaJl-Thonnpsion (the Now Zealand naval adviser), commander of the Philomel.lie served in the navy for borne time, and his cousin, Roar-Admiral 1 iLoftua Tottenham, at presumt has a command in the Home Fleet*. Captain Tottenham served in the Boer -war, and for some yeais Ihae been an 'Uie service of the Agricultural Detpartment in New Zealand. He was pro-vost-marshal and naval intelligence Oiffieor on the Stimoaa expedition. The financial secretary (Loibel) isprohably a German officer reinstated'. The first thing Colonel Logan said to him on ateking lum .to resume office was: "I shall, of course, require a balance-shreet from you." Thw Germans had sent all the money from the treasury to Pago.pago, in 'the adjoining American island of Tutuila, and it was freely stated toy local inhabitants that they had paid all tho officiate six months' ig a year's salary in advance. Under the circumstances the balance-sheet to be supplied by the Secretary of Finance should be nattier an interesting 'one. ; Corporal R. W. Watson, who assumes the office of district judge in German Samoa, is a eon of Mr. W. Watsbn, who is well-known throughout New Zealand as a director of the Bank of Now ZcaIniuli Corporal Watson is a barrislpr and •olicitoT of the firm ■of (Watson and Moredi'Uii, Wellington. iCorporal Sim, in charge of the Police and Prisons Department, is a son of his Honor Mr. Justice. Sim.

Private Bot!kaml|y. is,a son if Mr. H. T. Bothamly, who has 'been, for several yours usher of the ISiack Rod in the New Zealand Parliament.

The chief surveyor, iMIr. Nomnan (McDonald, ihas been Tesidcut for mamy years years in Samoa, and is fully acquaintledi n'oifc only wiith Dhe faraoan survey but also with tile land law* and regulations of 'the country. He rendered excellent service to the-British naval forces duirin<? the last Samoam rebellion, when the Germans wore sohowing with the rebels An fomenting the insurrection tihat evemtuaWy resulted in the ceding of the islands Upolo and Savaii too Germany. For these services Mr. McDonald sxteivtd a letter of thariks and. a. grant from the Admiralty. So far as can be judged, Colonel Logan seems to have made a wise Selection of officials with a view to controlling affairs under the military government lit .present in force in German Samoa.