Latest. INCIDENT AT A MELBOURNE BANQUET.
THE GERMAN COMMISSIONER AFFRONTED. | UNITED PRKBB ASSOCIATION. | (Received January 18, 1 p.m.) Melbourne, This Dat. At the luncheon given in the Exhibition Building by Sir Jamea M'Bain, President, Mr. M'Coppin, Commissioner for the United States, said America was striving to preserve the autonomy of Samoa, but the Australian colonies remained silent. He thought it would be a most deplorable thing if the independence of Samoa were sacrificed to the give-and-take policy of European statesmen. Mr. M'Coppin'a remarks were warmly applauded, and Herr Wermuth, German Commissioner, became irritated and left the room. He contends it was a breach of etiquette to raise a question of foreign policy at an international exhibition.
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Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 15, 18 January 1889, Page 2
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