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'ARTICLE V.

Every civil suit which may be brought in Samoa against any subject of her Britannic Majesty shall be brought before, and shall be tried by, her Britannic Majesty's High Commissioner, or such other British officer duly authorised as aforesaid.

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'ARTICLE VI.

Every summons or warrant to appear as a witness before her Britannic Majesty's High Commissioner, or such other British officer duly authorised as aforesaid, and directed to a Samoan subject, shall have the same authority, and may be enforced in like manner, as if such summons or warrant had been directed to a subject of her Britannic Majesty.

'ARTICLE VII.

'Her Britannic Majesty engages to cause Regulations to be issued to enforce the observance by British subjects of such of the existing Municipal Laws and Police Regulations of Samoa as may be hereafter agreed upon between the Government of her Britannic Majesty and that of the Samoan State, and for the due observance of Quarantine by British subjects.

'ARTICLE VIII.

'Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain may, if she think fit, establish on the shores of a Samoan harbour, to be hereafter designated by her Majesty, a naval station and coaling depot; but this article shall not apply to the harbours of Apia, or Saluafata, or to

that part of the harbour of Pango-Pango which may be hereafter selected by the Government of the United States as a station under the provisions of the treaty concluded between the United States of America and the Samoan Government, on the seventeenth day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.

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'ARTICLE IX.

The present treaty shall come into force from the date thereof, but shall again become null and of no effect, if not ratified within the prescribed period.

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'ARTICLE X.

The present treaty, consisting of ten articles, shall be ratified, and the ratification exchanged at Apia within one year from the date thereof.

'In witness whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto their seals.

'Done at Apia the twenty-eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.

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SIR JULIUS VOGEL'S POLYNESIAN SCHEME.

PROPOSED NEW ZEALAND POLYNESIAN TRADING COMPANY.

THE following is a copy of a memorandum from Sir Julius Vogel, K.C.M.G., at that time Treasurer of New Zealand, and dated Christchurch, 22nd November, 1873, to Sir James Fergusson, Bart., then Governor of that Colony, on the proposition of Mr. Coleman Phillips that a powerful Polynesian Trading Company should be formed in England and New Zealand under the highest auspices, for the purpose of developing the unheeded wealth of the South Sea. As I believe the proposition of Mr. Coleman Phillips, so ably endorsed by Sir Julius Vogel, is, in its leading features, of great practical value at the present time, I reproduce here the draft-agreement, in addition to the despatch, merely remarking in the words of the Colonial Secretary of Fiji, the Hon, J. B. Thurston, in a letter received by me while this was being printed: 'No business can stand if it cannot stand without the diversion of State funds from their proper channel.' It follows, therefore, that I do not regard the matter from a New Zealand, but from an imperial standpoint.

If the development of Polynesia is worth anything, it should, in my opinion, be carried out by a substantial private organisation, with head-quarters in London, having the command of adequate capital; but this private company should be encouraged by the Home and Colonial Governments in every way to pursue its peaceful trading mission all over the islands of the Pacific. If, of course, British gold and British commerce become dominant in the South Sea, annexation on an extended scale would have to follow, in the interests of the native races; but, in my opinion, this is inevitable in any case. The trade of the Pacific will assuredly fall into the hands of the Anglo-Saxon, and now is the time for British capitalists to prepare for the future that certainly

awaits us.

'I avail myself of your Excellency's invitation to put into written shape the representation I have had the honour to personally make to you on the subject of the South Sea Islands.

'1. The unsettled state of the South Sea Islands, especially the uncertainty which hangs over their future, is calculated to cause considerable uneasiness to the neighbouring colonies.

2. Intimately identified as the future of these colonies will be with the Imperial country, of which I am of opinion it is their ambition to remain dependencies, they cannot regard without anxiety the disposition evinced by some foreign nations to establish a footing in their neighbourhood amongst the islands of the South Pacific.