ISLAND NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3666, 19 November 1890, Page 2

ISLAND NEWS.

(United Press Association,) Auckland, November 18. News from Samoa is that business is paralysed owing to the nonarrival of the Chief Justice and the delay of Treaty Powers in putting in force the provisions of the Sam oan arranged at llerlin, At a meetipgb! tp pjnsider the situation, fegoliitiong wore passed expressive of anxiety at the unsettled state of utfairs, and complaining of the delay of the three great Powers in establishing a permanent Governor, and protesting ' -'|>Al' levying and collating against tm«... —«nfcig estabduties till such listed, and requesting the Consuls 0., Germany. England, and the United States to telegraph their Governments urging the imperative necessity of at once establishing an effective Government in Samoan under the provisions of the treaty. It is stated that Mr W D Hunt, the well known Island trader, a resident et Falealili, Upolu, his wife were subjected to a dastardly assault by a Saraoan Native named Taitoi, who very nearly shot him. The native threatened to shoot Mrs Hunt, Mr Hunt came into Apia and complained to the British Consul, who went to King Malietoa and demanded the arrest of the native. Accordingly two of the police, with Mr J. H, Danvers, worn Bent across to capture Taitoi, but had not returned to Apia at latest advices.

News from Tonga is that the king officially received Mr Ljete, the British Vice-Consul, who presonted ay picture of the Queen, the gift of Sir John Thurston. A Privy Oounoil. was held on the 6th, at which the estimates for 1891 were passed, and the law that compels Europeans who hold no taxed land to pay a poll tax was repealed, The Eev George Brown, Commissioner for the Wesleyan Conference, is leaving by tho Lubeck, The Free Ohurch and the W&sleyan Church are how getting on tolerably well und a much bettor fueling is prevailing," ' " . "