Election to one of the five names is significant; it brings not only dignity but power, and the holder is secure, from that moment, of a certain following in war.

But I cannot find that the further step of election to the kingship implies anything worth mention.

The successful candidate is now the _Tupu o Samoa_--much good may it do him! He can so sign himself on proclamations, which it does not follow that any one will heed.

He can summon parliaments; it does not follow they will assemble.

If he be too flagrantly disobeyed, he can go to war.