SAMOAN NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1897, 28 May 1889, Page 2

SAMOAN NEWS.

Auckland, May 26. The Herald's correspondent, writing from Apia on May 7th, Btates that matters political are comparatively quiet. The' belligerents still occupy their respective positions, and apparently are awaiting the reslilt-of the Samoao Conference. It is believed that through the instrumentality of Admiral Kimberly, both Mataafa and Tamasese have agreed to suspend hostilities in the meantime, and allow the natives to return to their homes to plant food. In a quarrel between two Samoan young men, one shot the other dead with a revolver. The father of the murdered man took upon himself to punish the murderer, and deliberately shot him, claiming that the Samoan custom allowed him to take the law into him own hands, whilst moreover the Bible held that it tvas right to take an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. One of the United states marines was engaged on the 15th rearranging a hammock in McArthur's timber shed, when a beam fell upon him and killed him. A maolnamed Miller, who was employed by the German Trading Company, Bhot himßelf on May sth with a revolver. He was in good cicumstsnees, and there was no apparent cauao for the suicide. Tha American warship Nipsic left Apia on 9th May under convoy of the Alert, to proceed to Auckland for repairs, but when 200 miles out tho temporary rudder, which had b?en fitted to the Nipsic, got adrift, and as she was making water rapidly, both ships returned to Apia, Tho Liipaic is now at Pago Pago,