NEW AT BRIDES

Hokitika Guardian, 7 November 1921, Page 3

NEW AT BRIDES

AN iiKKKI? "K SALK. ,t STU M.IAN ANT. N. 7. CAULK ASSOCIATION -Deceived This Day a( 'b in a.m.i LONDON- Nnvcuiho o.

With referenee to Australian imiorls in relation Lo Urn sale of Hbe L Company's prnpertVs 111 New lie 'll, m j, is learned that John Hamilton, l.nndot representative »f ,lu ‘ """I"'" ' emleavou red I’crsoitall.v to see 1 Inches when tin- latter was ill l.tmdonT He " 's apparently unsuccess! d and the, efore submitted the proposal writing 0,1 doth. June. Hamilton made it dear that the proposal had ho m disclosed t-> the h reach (ioycriimont who offered no objeelioli* <" Hie ..,.,io„ ■ also that tic whole Kreneh t,. |t .sts were entered by sale, thus giving the Australian <iovcrnuieiit pr"l ■- minating control 111 New Hd.u which she desired. Kurthe- cables pa - cl after Mr Hughes left hngland and the latter cabled on 271!>. Sept. mising a reply after Cabinet consul ■- ration, and asking for an eslcsm,, o tic option. Hamilton was anxious >-i receive a reolv prior to the nicotine i the Kroiidi Company on 'J.th. OctnliOn Hist. Oetoher he sent a cable str.ing that the Company, failing m”" " diate accept mice of the oiler, must t '■ elsewhere. Americans were trying to Date with Hamilton who is *(>d Without a reolv to Ids cables. Hamdton also olfeved to aeeeet payment m 1 oiids. if convenient to Australia, in ,* nUtro-rst Ml.: \ iiriii'j; ov*i >' ,n s ' seven million francs in the Ill's! y> 11 t bride mdliolir, Id fuel, of ill' following years. The whole ol Dl ' ,!eeds were deposited in Noumea. Hamilton slates that the Kreneh Korei-ii Office asserted that the sale would gl'e full political rights. I, is |; now u that when Hughes " in | oiidolt he disellssed New Hebrides question with the Imperial authonte-s and afterwards saw Hie Kreneh nntlmnties in Haris oil the submit. ID; should therefore lie in possession ol very definite knowlclgc »t the "'hole situation.