NATIVE TROUBLE AT COOK ISLANDS.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12480, 5 March 1909, Page 3

NATIVE TROUBLE AT COOK ISLANDS.

I . Auckland, March 4. IMr Carroll states , that H.M.S. Cambrian has gone to the Cook Islands with the Resident Commission-er,-anticipating -that; the "".'trouble-' at Manahiki ahd-Rakahangu will, be settled without -difficulty! The presence of the warship ' backing ..up . Major Gudgeon .Would; provide" a great moral force.'. 1 No report was ? made -.to the British. Government becaiise 1 the Cook Iblands are .under New Zealand* jurisdiction, and tne.Commissioner has full p'oVrer to deal with the ' difficulty.