The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-02
SAMOA is STILL IN TROUBLE.
MALIETOAITES DOUBLE TAXED by
THE GOVERNMENT.

Indignation on Account of Prisoners
Kept in ExiIe-Ra1eI Adjudged
Guilty of Contempt, hut Has
Failed to show Up TO Take His
Medicine Threatening Letters
Written TO Chief Justice Cham
hers.
Sydney, N. s. W., March 1.-Advices re-
ceived here from Apia. Samoa. under date
Of Feb. II, say that affairs there are still
unsatisfactory
The provisional government, 1t appears.
Is interfering with native and British sub
jects and also with the servants of British
subjects, and is taxing the Malietoa people
-, and the Mataafa people 81 each.
Dr. Raffel the German president Of the
municipal council at Apla, at the instiga-
ton of the British consul has apologized
for boycotting the British third-ciass cruis-
er Porpoise and for insulting the chief jus
tlce and Malietoa's lawyer while they were
guests on board the Porpoise.
A landing party from the Porpolse ready
with machine guns, was therefore not sent
ashore, though a plan to make an attack
on Mulinuu had been all arranged,
Several of the Mataafas have died of
wounds, including one woman who was
shot in the breast.
There is much indignation at the act of
the provisional government an keeping In
exile prisoners whose only offense is 10y
Atty.
The house of Chief Suamanu. whose
bravery in saving life during the histor-
ical hurricane was rewarded by the Amer
leans with the present of whale boat
has been burned and looted, and the whale
boat has been stolen. Suamanu is still in
exile
The German Consul continues to pro-
tect the Germans from the jurisdiction of
the Supreme Court, but Herr Grovesmuhl
paid $50 for contempt of court when the
court advertised the sale of his property.
Herr Grovesmuhl remains at his consul
late. fearing arrest and having to serve
a sentence of 100 days Imprisonment 1t is
added that he is also afraid of being ar
rested on the charge of drunkenness.
RaffeI Adjudged Guilty.
DR.. Raffel has been adjudged guilty of
contempt of court. but has refused to
come forward for sentence. He was for
merly arrested without force, but sought
the protection of Herr Rose, the German
consul.
Lieut.. Won Bulow, a former officer In
the German army and organizer of the
Mataafa forces. is still at SavaaI He re-
fuses to come to court on the charge of
contempt in breaking jail and claims that
he should be tried by a German military
court at Berlin.
Mr.. Moore. an American citizen, who Is
said to favor the Germans, wrote threat
ening letters 10 Chief Justice Chambers.
He was found guilty of contempt of court,
but was discharged, after making an am.
pie apology.
The eeeling in favor of Malietoa Tanus
Is growing, and Mataafa's following Is dis
migrating. The whole of Tuhiela and
most of Savaal now favor Maletoa Tanus.
Generally, the dispatches assert. there Is
a strong feeling in favor of British an
pexation.
The German vice consul has returned
here from Tonga, or Amsterdam Island,
one of the southernmost of the Tonga
Islands and the residence of their sover-
eign, after having unsuccessfully urged
the King to dismiss his premier.
The natives are heavily indebted to the
Germans, but are unable to pay. The
treasury Is depleted, and salaries have
not been paid for six months
Eight hundred thousand dollars, suppos-
ed to have been lodged in a safe at Haa-
pal, one of the Tonga Islands, are missing.
The treasurer has been imprisoned at To
ga, and the arrest of the native chief JUS
tice and the native president. who were
joint custodians of the keys of the safe,
was being discussed.