SAMOAN NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1902, 11 June 1889, Page 1

SAMOAN NEWS.

Sydney, June 6. News received by the Lubeck from Samoa states that fI.M.S. Rapid had left there for Fiji in order to bring Sir J, B,'Thurston 'to Apia :toi hear .charges m&dejagainst Mr Hi De Goetlogani the British 'Consul, of having rendered! to Malaafa in the recent strife. June 7. The s.B. ‘Lubeck, from Apia: harbor, news up to May ,28th. Mataafa 'bearing 1 that a German war ship l was approaching Samoa, has taken steps to mobilise :( bis men, and I he shortly expects to have « well armed and' equipped army of 8000 strong. Tamasese 4s still ■ encamped at Lna. tuanna, bis stronghold, with 2000 ■men, •' The remains of the German warship Eber ! have : heen : destroyed' by dynamite. The High Commissioner has delivered judgment in the Case Maramia v, McArthur and Co. The verdict was •given ; for plaintiff for £41,276 and costs,' and defendant to deliver up possession of the : lands. June'B, At the request of Mataafa, Mr Napier, solicitor, of Auckland, has drafted a skeleton 1 Constitution I ‘Bill for Samoa, Most of the Natives living in the vicinity of Apia are subsisting on rice,, but cannot get much as it is dear. The British Yice-Consul has written to Auckland respecting offers of a supply of food* for the:Natives, stating that now they will be very acceptable. Amongst the charges against ill. De Ooetlogan, British ' Consul, it is stated that : when the Germans went to attack Mataafa the Consul showed a blue light, and also allowed the Natives to enter the‘.’Consulate for protection when fired at by the Germans, The British Consul states in regard to showing the blue light that it was merely-a signer to H.MiS, Royalist, lying at anchor jn the harbor. 1 With regard to the statement that he alloiwed the Natives, to enter the Consulate he says that ho only, allowed such Natives as were wounded to enter the Consulate. It, is believed that ' the American warship Nipsic,'damaged in 'the recent which unsuccessfully i attempted to proceed to New Zealand for repairs, has gone to 1 Honolulu, the voyage thither being considered safer, thanj the risk bif - the boisterous weather ofithe New Zealand coast.