Uneasy Samoa.

From Our Own Correspondent.

Apia, Aug. 10.

WHEN H.M.S. Laburnum left Apia last week for Palauli, in Savaii, carrying the Inspector of Police, there was some excitement in the Territory.

Palauli is the centre of the Mau activity in that part of the group, and it had been reported that the high chief of Palauli, an ardent Mau man, had in sulted the Administrator, General Hart, when he called there on malaga recently.

The villagers fled into the bush on the approach of the warship, and it is not known whether the Inspector saw any of the Mau people. At any rate, the Laburnum returned without any prisoners.