OUR SAMOAN LETTER.
[FROM 00R OWN COHRKSFONDItoT.J
Apia, April lfl. The month has passed by without anything of importance having occurred, the principal matter of intoroab having been the municipal elections, the result) being that four out of tht five councillors elected are pledged to carry oub cortain economic and administrative reforms.
The Government faipule bad a meeting With the Consult! a few days ago, When the War question and the importance of aims add ammunition wore dieouseed. The Consuls disapproved of 'the proposed importation of war material by the Govern* ment and tin matter it dropped for the present.
Herr Rise, the new German Consul, has arrived. He is the offiolai who ' was appointed to investigate and deal with charges made against the German officials in the Cameioons some time ago. —
Herr Schmidt, President Of the Apia Municipal Council, returns to Germany in .September next. It is rumoured that Capt. Branded, who held office here under the Taraaaesu Government in 1887 >* to bo his euoceeaor.
Robert Percy Chatfield, formerly of Auckland, auctioneer and commission Agent), haa been adjudicated bankrupt on hie own petition.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10116, 27 April 1896, Page 5
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184OUR SAMOAN LETTER. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10116, 27 April 1896, Page 5
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