Show F w i iA A SA SAMPAN SAMOAN IOAN BATTLE APIA BURNED BIRNED AND MANY WAR WAR- KILLED O Trouble by High handed Course Cour e or of i Official V Who Iio Depose the Chief and Incited the Auckland N. N Z Jan Tan 20 Samoan Advices just received here say that that- Chief Justice Chambers on December December- 31 d declared Tanus to have have- in succession sion to the the- been elected king ing late King The chief justice justice- also announced that had been elected vice vivo king Chief Mataafa Mataafa- was disqualified The consuls of the United States and Great Britain and the captains of the the- German warship Falke Falice and the British warship Porpoise met the German consul consul con con- sul sui who refused to recognize R Tanus and declined to operate co-operate ia ina inathe the disposal of the Samoans who thereupon assembled in large numbers number at armed themselves and surrounded surrounded sur sun rounded the municipality l Tanus and mustered about 2000 men well armed but supplied with defective ammunition The The- British and American consuls endeavored endeavored endear endear- ored to avert hostilities but they were commenced on January 1 Ma Ma- Tanus and fought bravely but of their followers followers- were captured Then disheartened and outnumbered the two chiefs chief sought Bought refuge on the British warship and their followers sought protection under the of the V guns Porpoise V Mataafa's l skilled loss was sixty one men r killed and wounded and Tanus Tanus Ta Ta- nus lost twelve men killed and wound ed The foreign residents were placed under the protection of a a. of men belonging to the British ship and Chief Justice Chambers and family went on on board of her The followers of Mataafa looted and burned Apia destroyed the plantations plantation and pillaged considerably in the coun coun- try The consuls decided to recognize Mataafa Mataafa Mataafa Ma Ma- and his chiefs as a a. provisional government pending the receipt of S' S instructions from the powers Afterward Dr Rafael and the German German Ger Ger- man consul closed the supreme court declaring that the power was vested in them The British and American consuls con con- c consuls n. n the then appealed to the captain of the British ship Porpoise who landed a force of jackets blue and Chief Justice Jus tics tice Chambers under their guard took his seat Mataafa held aloof from these last developments The excitement con continues con cori- times f r V |