NEW HEBRIDES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1616, 1 December 1905, Page 2

NEW HEBRIDES.

B'B telegraph Press A'ca'n,/ 'CopyrighParis, Nov. 29.

M. Gervais, reporter to. the committee of. Fdreign-Affairs-in the' Chamber bf Deputib3i.refe?ring to New-Hebrides, remarked that considering the excellent relations between London and Paris, he hoped onr [neighbors would be able to bring the Australian Slates to an equitable appreciation of our rights in order to secure confirmation in the New Caledonian Archipelago of the situation due to us owiog to our pecuniary sacrifices, the moral and material effeote of our subjects,"and because ; of the incontestable geographical fact that the New Hebrideg..constitute a dependency, of. a French oolony,.: ’ ii- -

L 1 Sydney, Novi 80;

• The Herald, commenting on M. Gervaia’s remarks in reference to the New Hebrides. says there should be no farther -question as to the need to emphasise at the earliest.oppo.i.topity that Australia is the, dominant force in the Paeiifio, and that further>intrusion by the Powers of either hemisphere would be bitterly resented. The doty of Mr Deakin is to promptly in'form tho Colonial Office, that Auetra'ia on..tqrt'bins nothing but hostilities to .any pro-, possl for extension pf Jaieign interests in the Pacific. - The Daily Telegraph, after declaring M. Gervais’s suggestion unacceptable, says tho ''hftitude of the Australian Parliament and Government might well give the Frenoh a 'new hope.that they would incline the 'British Government to inake a concession. ‘lndifference and - neglect- have characterised Australian, polioy in regard to the group. It would be a novel’reoord if the British were outgeneralled oolonially, even by their gallant friends the French, but it is a plain choioa between this and aohange of poliby. We cannot, ejrpeot to hold territory another,, nation is . developing and populating,, while..we are not only refraining from any share, in.the effort, but aro taking, a course calculated positively to disoourage settlement.