The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1889-07-30
SAMOAN NEWS.
Captain Mullen Interviewed = Items
From American and Australian

captain Mullen INTERVIEWER = tbeAls
From American and Australian
Papers.
A report has come by way of
Auckland that Mataafa and Tama-
sese have come to an agreement to
oppose the return and reinstatement
of Malietoa. Advices from Apla
under date of June 25th are that the
German gunboat Wolf is to go to
the Marshall Islands after Malietoa
and to restore him to the Islands.
Captain Dennis W. Mullen, the
commander of the Nipsic, has been
interviewed at last, though for five
days after his arrival on the Alameda
he evaded the reporters. He denies
that he and Admiral Kimberly are
not on good terms, and says that
they parted the best of friends. He
does not say that they did not differ
about what should be done with the
Nipsic after the hurricane. Mullen did
not want to take her to Auckland and
Kimberly thought it advisable,
Mullen then asked to be relieved of
his command. Mullen says that he
did not think it advisable to send the
Nipsic on long sea voyage such as
she is now making. He is on his
way to Washington.
FROM AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPERS.
From late files of the Samoan
Times we CLEAN that on Decoration
Day the American sailors at Apia,
being well supplied with flowers by
the native children, marched first to
the ground where their late COM
rades were buried, and then to the
last resting place of the German
sailors, and strewed all the graves
with the blossoms.
The Admiralty intend promoting
Captain Kane and some of the
officers of H. NJ S. Calliope for their
pluck and skill in saving the vessel
during the recent disastrous hurri
CCtu6 DIT lJdlllOCt.
Mr. w J. Napier has received a
communication from the private sec
rotary of Admiral Kimberley Lieu
tenant Rittenhouse), now stationed
at Samoa, from which it appears
that the Admiral has sent home to
America all the United States forces
except two lieutenants and five men.
The Admiral intends to visit the
harbour of Page Page, in Tutuila,
to look after American interests
there, and will probably not finally
leave Samoa until the new political
machinery, as settled by the Berlin
Conference, is in a fair way of estab-
lishment. The British Consul did
not attend feast given by Mataafa,
though invited. This was in. accor-
dance with the tenor of his instruc-
tons from the foreign office. No
German officials attended.
On 9th July II. B. NJ. S. Rapid
arrived at Apia. The Governor OF
FIJI, who was on board, was visited
by Admiral Kimberly; DR.. Stuebel,
H. I. G. Consul General; Colonel De
Coetlogon, II. B. Nj. Consul; and the
leading residents of Apia Affairs
generally were found comparatively
quiet, natives and Europeans alike
anxiously looking forward to the re
suit of the Berlin Conference. Upon
the day prior to the High Commits
sioners arrival, an adherent of Mata-
afa had been imprisoned by lama
sese's party on a charge of larceny.
A request for his release having been
refused, Mataafa caused the goal to
broken open and the man released.
No resistance was offered, or was
possible, Mataafa being completely
master of the situation The man
was then tried by his chief, found !
guilty, and sentenced to two months
hard labour.
The German gunboat Wolf az
rived at Apia on the 18th inst In
she fouled with some of |
the cables or wreckage, with which
the bottom of the harbor is now
plentifully strewn, and. had to send
a diver down. After the diver had
been down a couple of hours the cap
tain became anxious about the in
ability of his man to come to the
surface. The Rapids diver was then
borrowed when it was found that the
man had become en-
tangled with the cable of his own
ship. After three hours immersion,
however, he came up to the satisfac-
ion of everybody.
The German corvette Sophie was
expected daily at Apia from Auck-
and.
On the 10Th H. B. NJ. S. Egeria.
Commander F. G. Oldham, left Apia,
after coaling, for surveying duties.
It is rumored that she will visit Suva
Turing the month of August.
The German warship Alexandrine
las arrived at Port jackson on her
way 10 Samoa. Her commission is
or three years on the South Pacific
tation, with headquarters at Apia
She has IA heavy broadside guns.
guns of lesser weight for sal1ting.
,ow and stern chasers, and 6 machine
runs of the Hotchkiss pattern. She
teams ID knots and carries 21Omen.