SAMOAN AFFAIRS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1850, 7 February 1889, Page 1

SAMOAN AFFAIRS.

London, February 3, The Standard says that it will be madness on the part of Germany to enter on a war with the United States at the present juncture. Count Herbert Bismarck, in an interview with a representative of the New York Herald on the situation in Samoa, stated that the matter was unworthy of a single angry despatch being written. It was needful to punish Mataafa, but Germany was anxious to co-operate with England and America. Germany would recall any of her officials if they had exceeded their duty, February 4. The American naval authorities am sending large supplies of coal-to-Pago-P»go. , 0 The Times, referring to the Samoan question, ho'ds that it is the duty of England to support the views of the Australian colonies. Berlin, February 4. The German Press advocates retreat from the attitude taken up by Germany at Samoa, The Times in an article on the Samoan question says that the attitude of England is secret and suspicious, and that it is essential that the line of action which she intends to take should be divulged. The Times considers it a matter for regret that the defence of freedom should have devolved on the United Slates, and expresses a fear that there will be a repetition of the New Guinea fiasco, unless the views of the Australasian colonies are upheld, The National Zeitung, in the coarse of an article on the Somoan difficulty, assarts that all America’s rights to the harbor of Pagopago have lapsed, as the Government of the United States did not avail itself of those rights within a specific time, Washington, February 3. There is a calmer feeling abroad in reference to Samoa,

February 5. Tho American warship Mohican will probably be despatched to Samoa.