THE PACIFIC.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9114, 6 April 1908, Page 5

THE PACIFIC.

CONDEMNATION" OF BRITISH POLICY. Press Association—Copyright. Received April 6, 8.40,a.m. London, April 5. The Standard commenting on a pamphlet embodying a series of articles' published in the Sydney Morning Herald at the end of last year dealing with British policy in the Pacific, says:—“lt is a painful record of colonial office mismanagement and Imperial neglect. All talk about the Empire during two decades left Downing Street nearly untouched. The Australian grievances are actual. Other nations associate themselves with the enterprises of merchants and settlors, but Britain leaves merchants fight their own battles.”

■ The Standard cites the history of the Marshall Islands and New Hebrides, but doee"not attribnte__the responsibility wholly to laxity or indolence of the Colonial Department, but blames Parliament and the electorate for being absorbed in party conflicts and parochial cares.