Show MATAAFA MADE KING election of the new samoan ruler was without exciting incident now york jan 10 A dispatch to the now york from washington fays mataafa has been elected king of samoa to succeed Mali cloa official information to aliis effect lias been received liere the election was bield without trouble though who was vice king in 1881 backed by a small following endeavored to obtain the office the situation according to alio latest advises advices ia quiet Mataafa a election ia highly satisfactory not only to lie washington government but to alio german and british because of alic certainty that lio will be guided in liia actions by alio wishes of alio consuls in abia apia of alie poward to the treaty the collier is now fitting out it norfolk for 1 cruise to pago pago bho will deliver tona of coal after coal lias been stored it ia probable that a man of war will be directed 0 o to samoa to display alie flag |