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Show THE US11LST IX SAMOA. The Natives Think that There are Too Many I'oreigners in Orrire. Sax Fkanoito, Nov. 27. Among the passengers pas-sengers on the steamship Mariposa, from Australia and Samoa, was United Stales Land Commissioner Ide, who was sent ibwn to Samoa to straighten land t:ih-s in ci'U-jun ci'U-jun tion with the F.nglish aud tieniian commissioners. com-missioners. He said it had been discovered that there are more (b eds on record in Apia than there is laud in the entire island-. Tiie word of straightening out the tiMes nill iet be completed for two years or mor-. Ide sas tliat the native p 'ople regard the taxation tax-ation as oppressive; tiiat there are too many foreigners in othVc, and that some of the possiiions should be outlined. The petty chief has left Apia ami gone to Mataafu where he is quartered at Milie. He :n.-;-ts that he is the rightful king, and hostilities may begin at anytime, unless tin- powers interfere. in-terfere. He argues that in the Berlin treaty the powers agreed that Malietoa should lie king until a successor was elected, and demands de-mands that the election take place now, tiiat he has the people with him. i'he Apia council coun-cil has declared Mataafa and tho chiefs with hiin rebels aud forfeited their lands. . . , |