(Translation.) (Inclosure.)-Malietoa's Speech. I ADDRESS you, Gentlemen, the three Consular Representatives, together. I wish most respectfully to inform you that it is my desire and my great entreaty that you may kindly help and protect me in all those things in which I have to direct this country. For there are still people who keep up opposition, and have again changed their mind with regard to matters which have been already decided for us by your Gevernments. There are several districts which refuse obedience to all the orders I have given them. I therefore beg of you that you may help me in all those things in which I have given orders in this country. Further, the prohibition of fishing with dynamite. There are some foreigners who continue to fish with dynamite. I should like that you, the Consular Representatives of the three Great Powers, would agree with me with a view to give that law every protection. I have also forbidden to all Samoans to play cricket by Ordinance made on the 20th June. The latter was distributed, and one printed copy sent to the Judge Tofae, but he returned it to me, informing me that he would not accept and follow it, neither would it be accepted and followed by his district. I am of opinion that this (the game of cricket) should be forbidden, else nobody would think of doing useful work. From it results the shortness of food and the impossibility to think of ways and means to earn money for paying taxes to the Government and for paying debts to the merchants. By it the work of teaching the young generation is also obstructed. Gentlemen, I hope you will approve of all the points which I have explained in this Speech, and that you will help me with regard to them for the good of this country and the Samoan Government. This is the end of my Speech. May you prosper. House of Malietoa, Apia, June 27, 1890. MALIETOA. SIR, No. 36.-The Marquess of Salisbury to Mr. Trench. Foreign Office, September 9, 1890. I HAVE been informed by the German Ambassador at this Court that the Reports received by his Government showed that it was expedient that the appointment of the Chief Justice of Samoa should be accelerated as much as possible. The German Minister at Washington has represented this to the United States' Government, and the American Minister at Stockholm has, in consequence, been instructed by telegraph to give the assent of the United States to the appointment of Herr Ceder crantz. Hon. P. Trench. SALISBURY. No. 37.-Consul Cusack-Smith to the Marquess of Salisbury.(Received September 15.) MY LORD, Samoa, July 28, 1890. I HAVE the honour to inclose a translation of a Proclamation signed by me, in conjunction with the German and American Consuls-General, to all the disaffected Samoans, warning them against plotting to make Mataafa King instead of Malietoa. I hear from all sources, Samoan as well as white, that this Proclamation has had a far-reaching and excellent effect throughout the whole kingdom. Trusting my action at a somewhat critical moment may meet with your Lordship's approval, I have, &c., The Marquess of Salisbury. T. B. CUSACK-SMITH. (Inclosure.)-Proclamation to all the People of Samoa. (Translation.) IT has come to our knowledge that villages of Savaii, Manono, and Upolu are collecting fine mats to bring to a certain high Chief, with the object of showing him their willingness to invest him with the high titles and dignities of the various districts of Samoa : Now, Malietoa Laupepa was made King by all the Samoans, in conformity with the General Act agreed upon by the Great Governments last year, whereupon Malietoa Laupepa was recognized as such by the Great Powers. Has this fact been forgotten by some Samoan village? Do they know that what they are now doing is rebellion? Do they suppose that we, the three Consuls of the Great Powers, will submit to anything which, it is clear, must again lead to warfare in Samoa ? Certainly not. Indeed, we cannot. But we hold that it is our duty to prohibit by force the schemes of these villages, and again inform all Samoa that Malietoa Laupepa alone can be acknowledged as King of Samoa by the Great Powers, and if there be any Samoan villages that rebel against him, they will assuredly be prevented forcibly from doing so by the Great Powers, and also severely punished. DR. STUEBEL, German Consul-General. United States of America. T. B. CUSACK-SMITH, British Consul. SIR, No. 38.-Foreign Office to Consul Cusack-Smith. Foreign Office, September 18, 1890. I AM directed by the Marquess of Salisbury to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 28th July last, inclosing a Proclamation signed by you, in conjunction with your German and American colleagues, warning the disaffected Samoans against plotting to make Mataafa King instead of Malietoa, and I am to convey to you his Lordship's approval of your action. T. B. Cusack-Smith, Esq. I am, &c., T. H. SANDERSON. SIR, No. 39.-Foreign Office to Mr. B. Haggard. Foreign Office, September 20, 1890. I AM directed by the Marquess of Salisbury to inform you that you are at liberty to proceed to Samoa in order to enter upon your duties as British Land Commissioner in those islands, either at the end of October or within the first half of the following month. B. M. Haggard, Esq. I am, &c., T. H. SANDERSON. No. 40.-Sir F. Plunkett to the Marquess of Salisbury. -(Received (Extract.) September 23.) Stockholm, September 19, 1890. I HAVE the honour to inclose copy of the note which I addressed to-day to Count Lewenhaupt, and which is similar in sense, though not in words, to the notes sent by my American and German colleagues. The Marquess of Salisbury. F. R. PLUNKETT (Inclosure.)-Sir F. Plunkett to Count Lewenhaupt. M. LE MINISTRE, Stockholm, September 19, 1890. IN compliance with instructions received from the Marquess of Salisbury, I have the honour to inform your Excellency that the appointment, proposed by His Majesty the King, of Herr Otto C. W. Cedercrantz as Chief Justice of Samoa under Article III, paragraph 2, of the Final Act of the Samoan Conference, will be agreeable to Her Britannic Majesty's Government. I avail, &c., Count Lewenhaupt. F. R. PLUNKETT. SIR, No. 41.-Foreign Office to Consul Cusack-Smith. Foreign Office, October 1, 1890. I AM directed by the Marquess of Salisbury to inform you that M. Otto Cedercrantz having, in accordance with Article III of the Final Act signed at Berlin on the 14th June, 1889, been named by the King of Sweden to be Chief Justice of Samoa, his nomination has been accepted by the three Treaty Powers. M. Cedercrantz will leave Sweden on the 10th instant, and will probably proceed to Samoa by the steamer which leaves San Francisco on the 14th December next. You are aware that the annual salary of the Chief Justice is fixed by the Final Act at 6,000 dollars in gold, or its equivalent, to be paid the first year in equal proportions by the three Treaty Powers. It has now been agreed that the salary of Judge Cedercrantz shall commence ten days previous to his departure from Sweden for Samoa, and that for the first year it shall be paid either quarterly or monthly, as he may prefer, in proportions of one-third each, by the Consuls of the three respective Powers in Samoa. I am therefore to instruct you to pay, from time to time, onethird of M. Cedercrantz' salary to him, after his arrival at Samoa, in accordance with the above arrangement, by bills payable to his order, and you will charge the amounts in your quarterly accounts with this Office. I am, &c., T. B. Cusack-Smith, Esq. T. H. SANDERSON. No. 43.-Sir F. Plunkett to the Marquess of Salisbury.-(Received October 7.) MY LORD, Stockholm, October 4, 1890. I HAVE the honour to inclose a copy of the note which I received yesterday evening from the Minister for Foreign Affairs, informing me that the King, in virtue of the request made to His Majesty by the three Powers who signed the General Act at Berlin on the 14th June, 1889, has selected M. Otto Conrad Waldemar Cedercrantz, Assistant Judge in the Svea Court of Appeal, for the post of Chief Justice of Samoa. His Excellency forwarded with the note a translation of the Royal Decree, signed yesterday, by which the King nominated M. Cedercrantz to his new post, and stated that he had addressed similar notes to the Minister of the United States and to the Chargé d'Affaires of Germany at this Court. The Marquess of Salisbury. (Traduction.) I have, &c., (Inclosure 2.)-Decree. F. R. PLUNKETT. Nous, Oscar II, par la grâce de Dieu Roi de Suède et de Norvège, des Goths et des Vandales, savoir faisons que, Sa Majesté l'Empereur d'Allemagne, Roi de Prusse, le Président des États-Unis d'Amérique, et Sa Majesté la Reine du Royaume-Uni de la GrandeBretagne et d'Irlande, Impératrice des Indes, ayant, en vertu d'un Acte concernant la neutralité et l'indépendance des Iles de Samoa, signé à Berlin, le 14 Juin, 1889, par leurs Gouvernements, demandé, d'un commun accord, par leurs Représentants accrédités à notre Cour, qu'il nous plairait de désigner un Grand Juge pour les Iles de Samoa; à ces causes et fins nous avons, en acquiesçant au vou qui nous a été exprimé, nommé et autorisé, comme aussi par les présents pleins pouvoirs nous autorisons et nommons le Sieur Otto Conrad Waldemar Cedererantz, Licencié en Droit, Juge-Adjoint de notre Cour d'Appel, Svea, &c., à être Grand Juge aux Iles de Samoa. En foi de quoi nous avons signé les présentes de notre propre main et y avons fait apposer notre sceau Royal. Fait au Château de Stockholm, le 3e jour du mois d'Octobre, l'an de grâce 1890. C. LEWENHAUPT. (L.S.) OSCAR. No. 45.-Count Hatzfeldt to the Marquess of Salisbury.-(Received (Translation.) MY LORD, October 15.) German Embassy, London, October 14, 1890. By a note verbale dated the 7th July the British Embassy at Berlin requested to be informed what steps the Imperial Government were thinking of taking with regard to the appointment of a President of the Municipality of Apia. At the same time the |