ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 218, 15 September 1888, Page 5

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

GERMANS BOARD AN ENGLISH^, la Aha, September 3,188 a," || Matters have been rapidly goiDg from bad:. $ I:] bo worse heio, and Lhe natives being «iiiible<i^JH A to stand ifa any longer bave broken ouu. ■ * i Armed men are arriving hourly by uu%'dred^£||ill ' from different parts of the gioup, ami j''^ilj|lfß f' ing both parties. The Malietoa pa.rfey ato'.'^.j^W gathering just behind the town m groat ,1< numbers, and the Tunu&sso party fortifying their Headquarters ou. Mulinua, fyij^K' Point. Great nombers of natives formerly-' f". §'.. in favour of Tamasese have, joined... 1 the Malietoa party^aiul /if r the .GeraafljJß'^ I did nob interfere,.thD present dc facto Go- , \\ vonnneiit would soon bo overthrown. .. ■ I Last Friday, Braticleis; at the head of wr. about 600 Tainasese men; attacked. a 'small E> party of about 40 Malietoa people! a few; 3. '■miles.back of Apia. A 'j<;lii. tu-A pi ice and, '-'vj.v^H there v/ero three killed on both sides and si'flp several wounded. ■ _ " '"• -^."iSmH ; Now that (.!i > war lsa<* hc,r-n started; tbera 'JW ia no saying where brwhen ifc will end; ..All ;'i;Jsß our lives and pryi»er!j arc in danger nmi ft« , *| there ia now no übufcr;;! territory it i.5 (liiil 1| cult to say how serious the disturbances 1[ may become to all European settlors dnd • jt traders. It isiiopod that the En^iij;h'.ind. ,• 1 United States Governments will inwrfore ■ I nnd prevent a statje'-'of anarchy eiisuin^.. I The acting United ■States Consul ia undbr- , I stood to have despatched a cable uiossage- : j : to his Government apprising them of tho I events that have 'transpire:*. Mr Scvvall, [M the Consul, is at present in the United. . S .Slates, having loft iiero ova sixty days' »j. i)j| leavo by the last mail steamer.' s^4ssss! fi Aru, Boptembort* 1 As the'mail .fs^usfc closinsr, J add it. liiW,, ,4y '{■ .1 to say that the trouble is more, .throaluniitf j; I than ever. Largo numbers continue to I leave the Tanias6sojpai-ty-.ri.nd yo over to :■ '■:» tho Malietoa side. We may "bo ia. tho ,- (I middlo of a great battlo before night.. '.'; ' 1 International complications arc ahuosn ' I certain to result from the "present outbreak ■ f, of hostilities; indeed, tht:y have f\lrcrdy | boen inaugurated! 'This morniag an .Etig- fl lish trading'vessel was overhauledv'.aiid.jj;. ■."; f.! searcliod by a boat from ono ot ths German,,1, ".' menof-war in th«; harbour. ~ .. ! ''■ Jj' Mr J. S. Campboil, tho United Sbatea'-- '. .;, '^ t Consul at Auckland, has received from iha i Acting Consul at Samoa a cable dcKpatch; ,| with roforenco to the trouble at the Islands,-,.^. ■:'';..\A and has for-yarded it to the authoritios at, - j Washington. .j Messi-s McArthur navo not received' anl^||^i j intimation from their manager thatvthe-jgwp • crew of the firm's vessel bad been illtreiitod«^v^p|j|: Apparently thoir letter lu'l hwn posted bo-:•> -I .ffiM fore thw happened. ' |

1 .";t,. ,:;;;?;? "I | At a -special meeting of the Eqmtablo In- ■ j : surance "Association^ held afc Dimcdiu 'yes-" .:,...] terday, the motion given notice of was j carried, v That the directors be authorised } to dispose of the bnsine.<3 doao by Bale or transfer," and an addition va« iia.de, 'v bub , ' that any disposal to parties having a domicile" beyond Now Zealand' shall bo by ■;> ;>';-, absolute salo for cash, only," After- eotne routine business had been ■ transacted \o.zb evening at the weekly ineoU /:.'.. .;'s}'■■% in^ of thu Oem of Auckland, • I,o<ige f .'- ; ; .i.v^ 1..0,G»T<, a social was held, to tvetco^no '. baokthe sailors of the H;M,& ; Diarijoml, who, it will be remembered, instituted this, body. After a liberal supply of refresh- ■ tnenia had been d«pensed,i f ' &c. x -> ' were indulged in V'ith muchupirit till 11,^., .Xs o'clock, vheu em eujjoyable- ?yenins coQ^'.'i