An item dated Auckland 31 May referred to tidings from Apia that Mataafa and Malietoa both pretenders for the crown of Samoa decided to accept the decisions of the German-British-American commission and to lay down their arms. Mataafa already handed over 1.800 rifles to the British gunboat Badger.(1)
Note
1. A iron built screw gunboat of the Ant-class launched at the Chatham dockyard on 13 March 1872 and sold on 6 October 1908.
