SAMOA.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11128, 21 January 1899, Page 3

SAMOA.

ADMIRAL fcfIARSOJKS OPINION. WHAT THE GEBMANS THINK. . Boceivod "iTunuttry 20, Ufi it.nii . H6i)£fcT, Friday. , Admiral Pea'raon, interviewed, said the Press knew as ranch about the Samoan trouble as he did. He had received despatches from H.M.S. Pdrpoise, but there ' was nothing in them to disclose. He could not say whether the disturbance was likely to assume an international aspect. The Samoan trouble, ho siM, had been siinmewttg for a longtime; perhaps now ib would be settled, and peti hs.^s not. He could not say at preeeat ' whether there would be any naval demonstrati6n in Satnoan waters. Possibly another British warship would be sent, and It was also likely that America would now send one, Sydney, Friday. ' A warship sailed last niglh'fc for New Zealand, to I'eplace the warehip sent from thence to Samoa. The other ships of the squadron are expediting their coaling. The leading German residents here are of opinion that only one side of the Samoan trouble has been told in the cables. They incline to the opinion that when their private letters arrive a different complexion tvill be placed on the conflict. TteGeWnan Cbnstfl, they say's is a man of reptite, arid Hot' likely to be placed in the position represented in the cables. The German residents generally I condemn the joint control of the group. , One of them suggests dividing the islands amongst the Powers interested as a way out of the difficulty.