The Australian Mails.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7734, 9 February 1905, Page 2

The Australian Mails.

(lierejwd |.>h. !>. (i. 11l 11.in.) ! I.ON I MIX. |.\.|, .H ! Tin. Times says : '.An ideal uhit,! I Australia,' .'reasonably iuterpretel ' pud pursued liy reasonable means ■•Ollld CIIIIMIIIMKI ilsi'Jf ;I<l t|,o sympathy of evpr.v Knglishman, but as applied to (ho until service (he doctrine has Ikvii dragged into „ lmlU ier upon wit Kit i( hud not the remotest, bearing,) The praclical working of the. unti-colom- clause ends in absurdity. lOven as the Common- \ wealth has theoretically slated the ' point it is hardly clearer The " ■White Australia' doctrine is at least I* sweeping': but is not (he Common- f wealth casuistical in juslifving the ' transmission homeward of inails by ' stpnmprs employing coloured labour l; on the ground nlono that they are t parried at- poundage rates ami not by 1* subsidy ? Nevertheless inconvenien- v uus caused aro signs that Australia ** is grasping the) seriousness of the c situation, lint wo wjsli there were > reasons for thinking that the Com- ," inonwoalth has also accepted the . l high arguments for 1111 Impci-inl pwl- > ; icy embodied in Mr Chamberlain's , f unnnswernble linal despatch. The c lisadvantngos of tho .situation will | v be far more heavily felt in Australia i ll than in llritnln. Instead of foster- " ing iiifo'r-communication bv all posJiblo means, building trade cornier- s lions, and generally streii(;thcning ( ' .'Vustralin's foundation, (he Commonwealth (Jovernment is pursuing n course tHreatcning serious damage to e Australian trade and the interests of r Hie Jfothorland,"- 'j