New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-04
A AWAITING MALIETOA'S RETURN.
THE GERMANS SEND A SHIP AFTER THE
KING THEY DEPORTED.
ADMIRAL KIMBERLY LEAVES APIA FOX PAW
PAGo HARBoR-ARRIVAL OF THE GERMAN
WARSHIP SOPHIE At SAMOA.
Copuio. 1889; BY The Ee,c. York Associated Press


Coproat 1889; By The Neic. Tork Associated Fress'
Apia, Samoa, July 90, per steamer Matlposa
Political affairs at samoa remain quiet lhe uor-
man gunboat wulf left here June % for Jolut MAT
shall Islands, for the purpose Of bringing bach 'no
deported King, Malletoa, and three chiefs VINO "eo
taken there by the Germans two years ago. i"o
Germans state that they are bringing Mane"a o"'
to Samoa of their free Will and not as the ei
of the Berlin Conference They also assert that they
viii do all I'm their power to restore the eohul"o
affairs that existed here prior TO the uine ui''
Malietoa was deported and they announce that uieS
Will favor Malctoa as King and Tamasese as 'l'o-
King.
The German corvette Sophie arrived recently hO"
Zanzibar vie sydney and Auckland. She has a mum
Der of wounded men board who received thelr lr
juries during the campaign at Zanzibar or'cefs Vi
the Sophie state that the Alexandria VIII srr'e n'i'
in about month and relieve the Sophie.
Admiral Kimberly, accompanied by Leu"hSu'
Merriam his secretary has gone 10 Tutuiia lsIa"''
seventy-fve miles from here to inspect fdso h"7O
harbor and the site for storing the coal "hol - -
pected 10 arrive daily from Philadelphia LIeu'o"
ant H. o. Rittenhouse and six men arc ihe o"iS ~"
viyors of the recent hurricane who stifl remain a.
Apia and It is tho1ght they will go aboard the Au"i'
as soon as she arrives from Honolulu
Tho polce appointed by Mataafa last June nave
fuu charge of the town, the police who held onioc
rdor the old ramasese Government having peen oioo
to disband Mataafa has also appointed nau'o 'uIe
for .be municipality and county districts lno E
have not An abundance of food, but 1t IS Dehc'ou o
supnIv will last until their plantations are asa" -,
| ,-orAtnc order A branch OF the London MssionaiS
Society in sydney raised $500 for the sahoa"S oi
the strength Of a private letter from one oi 'io ~
scenarios here and sent $3.50 worth of rice ana DIS
or,,s to An,a hut the chief missionary in Samoa at
| once wrote 10 sydney and asked that no more piO
,sons he sent as II only tended TO pa'perze inc n
tv.s Az soon as It was known here that proVi'on'
| had been received, number of natives "o"' ~ W.
missionaries and begged for food' Si"e m
| that tbev were starving. The MISSIONARIES
however. sent them away, stating that tney uous''
! tho natives were I'm no danger of starvatoh'
| Considerable annoyance is expressed mere Oh a. a.,
| count OF a newspaper argument "hch mas a
| star4ed in sydney between the Roman Cathohc' a."
| the london Missionary Society as 10 which rc"5'
body the natives belonged who saved lives uu'lns "'
| hurricane The SamOans divided IN thcr IcNs''
belief and # is feared the discussion may "hu "
increase the bad feeling which ALREADY eAlS's anr'"s
To natives Some of the high chiefs say that they
fear the religious differences may be carried l'o W
election for King, whig will be held on naie'oa
o,urn and that split may among the adheie'S
! ~ the Malietoa family Of which Maaata ], MEMBER
and tbereby Tama-ese may be elected King III "ncU
case the Germans would have as full power as they
had two years ago. ...t
Considerable eXcitcment was calseu hciD mum
| AGO by the fact that number OF the Sanoans el
| hero on the steamer Alameda for san tramlso' Il, n
| cLapoe of an American. Mataafa supposed uiat tht
latter was a British subject and ho appicl 10 Iht
British Consul to use hs Office IN PieTgnS pS r
| ferred the matter 10 United states NiceConsu
Blacklock aud Mataafa wrote ,ae letter rro,, u
| The latter asking him to interfere In the Mater. nov
| ever the natives were by that time aDoau th'
| steamer and as no boat could be obtained, u wa
| Impossible TO communicate with them -, n,
| consul Blacklock has not yet completed me ois
trfnton OF gifts from tho American Government con
| sistng OF money, watches, etc.