Samoan Mla Charge[?]
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From Our Own Correspondent APIA, August !
CONSIDERABLE amount local excitement was enge: ered in Western Samoa wl To’omata Tua, a member of Legislative Assembly, was char with assaulting another Samoi and ten other Samoans w charged with “threatening haviour with intent to provoke breach of the peace.”
When they were tried recently i fore the Chief Judge of the Tei tory, the Judge pressed the par to settle the case out of court.
Evidently some residents of i Territory disagree with the res of the action.
It appears that the trouble ar out of an incident last April wl a truck owned by a Chinese a driven by a Samoan was stoned a group of Samoans. Later, t Chinaman’s house was also stor and it was alleged that dams amounting to £6O was done to ] truck.