THE TITLE TO VAVAU.
GERMANY CLAIMS TO HAVE IT TV PAWN. (Per Pbess Associatiok.) '■ Auckland, to-day. / Advices from Tonga state that the f German Consul at Samoa has arrived at clj Tonga, and has notified the King of Tonaa W that Germany will seize Vavau, the most 1 fertile island of the group, unless the t private debts incurred ty the nativcß to tlie •German Company are paid The • Governnient have always repudiated the . ' responsibility of these debts because they were incurred through credit being given " by the Company to the natives in Glance / of the Tongan law prohibiting the granting i of credit to natives. ■.. The' King of Tond ''C is appealing to England,. America, and •* France, with' whom he has treaties to : ; . : ; ; arbitrate in 1 regard to the matter. #
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8410, 9 January 1899, Page 2
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131THE TITLE TO VAVAU. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8410, 9 January 1899, Page 2
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