THE SAMOAN QUESTION.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 230, 4 December 1888, Page 3

THE SAMOAN QUESTION.

TO BE RE-OPENED IN HOUSE OF COMMONS. London, Dec. 1. Mr McArthur, member for 8 . Anstril, in tervln t<> intrrwiwe th* Samoan question into the House of Common?. A T.on lon corr spon ’ont writing under d te October 6, says —Mr W. L. Rees delivered an interegtin*? r.ddre-a before the Ballon Society last week on the Samoan situation. As “ the leyjal >r of Kin? M tlietra”h‘ i spnke with som • authority, and h'S remark- havinsi «ttra ted the notice of lb *heridtn Knowles, that enterprising editor wired him from Scotland to write him an article on Samoa for the November number of the Nineteenth Centuey. This Mr Rees has determined to do, Before the Balloon Society he enphmi d three points: — First: That Eheland his abandonee I her ally, and broken her promises to a kinsr and a people who had been faithful to her interests and hoopiUble te her children. Secondly : Tha' the Germans and French were insidiously making great headway in the anuthprn seas, and occupying strong places which would be most detrimental to British commerce in case of war, and that they sp - red neither force nor diplomacy in their determination to p ish themselves in those regions Thirdly: That the colonies of Australasia were becoming alarmed at this evident tendency, and to some extent indignant at ths vacillati n of successive English government# in this matter which affec’s so nearly the welfnrre of the great southern They felt they had every to the strongest protection and support, totead of which the Imperial Government had for years exhibited a lamentable weekness where important colonial in'erests were concerned. If England jotc* ded to retain her hold upon Australasia, Mr Rees was convinced she must give wuy less to Contiuental influence, and pay more attention to the interests of her colonies. The following resolution was then carried That aa the British and American Governments had. through their officers, prombed assistance and protection Malmtoa, the rightful King of Samoa, it is . the opinion of this Society that- Great Britain and the United States should unite to rep resent to Germany the advisability of a final settlements ot Samoan affairs upon a safe basis, for the-safety of British and 'merioan interest- in the 8ou»h Pacific, and for the restoration of Malietoa to the Samoan Throne.