NEW HEBRIDES.
A STRANGE STATEMENT.
PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 9.66 p.m., Nov 1, London, Nov. 1. In the House of Common?, Mr Churchill, in reply to Mr William Redmond, said the Now Hebrides convention was not signed until the views of the Govern* mert.of Australia and New Zealand upon it bad boon oousultad, and their nequiem oenoe, albeit reluctant, bad boon obtained ; but long before the draft was even provisionally concluded Lord Elgin bad bad oonstont and detailed oommunioation with the colonial Governments ooceornod, and during the protracted negotiations which had occurred no efftrl had boon spared and no resouroo nogleolod to seouro the permanent intsres'i3 of the oolonios and the largest possible measure for the num her of olaims.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1921, 2 November 1906, Page 3
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119NEW HEBRIDES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1921, 2 November 1906, Page 3
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