News from Apia.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 5017, 27 May 1889, Page 2

News from Apia.

(By Telegraph.) . AUCKLAND, May 26. The Herald's correspondent, writing from Apia on May 7th, states that matters political are comparatively quiet. The belligerents still occupy their respective positions, and apparently are awaiting the-result of the Samoan Conference. It is believed that through the instrumentality of Admiral Kimberly, both Mataafa and Tamasese have agreed to suspend hostilities in the meantime, and allow the natives to return to their homes to plant Toad. In a quarrel between two Samoan young men, one shot the other dead with a revolver. The father of the murdered man took upon himself to punish the murderer, and deliberately shot him, claiming that the Samoan custom allowed him to take the law into his own hands, whilst moreover the Bible held that it was right to take an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. One of the United States marines was engaged on the losh rearranging a hammock in McArthur’s timber shed, when a beam fell upon him and killed him. A man named Miller, who was employed by the German Trading Company, shot himself on May sth with a revolver. Ho was in good circumstances, and there was no apparent cause for the suicide. The American warship Nipsic left Apia on 9th May under convoy of the Alert, to proceed to Auckland for repairs, but when 200 miles out the temporary rudder, which had been fitted to the Nipsic, got adrift, aud os the vessel was making water rapidly, both ships returned to Apia. The Nipsic is now at Pago Pago.