News from the Islands.
Group Offered to America.
By Tologrnpli.—Press Association. Auckland, tbis day. The Samoa Zoitnng statos that on July 15 Taimanua and his chiefs handed to Judge Gurr for transmission to President Roosevelt, the co'uplcto cession of tlio islands of Manua to tho United States, The paper adds that a littlo over it yoar ago the people of Manila wora plotting to nnsnßs • inato Judge Gurr on account oi certain decisions ho had rendered adverse to Taitnanu. Tho Zeitung congratulates Judgo Gurr on tho diplomacy ho must haye used, and regards it as another in Btnnco of tho remarkable influonco he exorcises over tho people of fiumon, Ma. mm is now in iho samo relationship to tho United States as the Island of Tntuila,
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1068, 16 August 1904, Page 3
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