MR SEDDON IN AUSTRALIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8120, 26 May 1906, Page 2

MR SEDDON IN AUSTRALIA.

CONFERRING WITH THE FEDERAL PREMIER. Mhmocbm, May 26. Mr Deakia {Federal Premier) saw Mr Seddon prior to the latter 1 , departure fer Adelaide, and arranged for. ormal conference in the mutual inri S N ÜB . tfali&andNew Ze^ on Mr Seddon .return to Melbourne. day 011 " eXpected back M Thur«. Mr Seddon informed an interviewer that lie had been milled by a state mentbySir W. Lyne (Federal W surer) made to Sir J. G. Ward when the latter was iu Melbourne, to (he effect that as Nc* Zealand and Auitralia were in competition in the nro. duotion of certain articles, there chance of the establishment of reoin. rocity. He lad ascertained frok £ W. Lyne that this neither represented his yiews nor those of) his oolleaguei nor the commercial classes of Austral lid. On the contrary, he found Mr Deakin anxious to come to terms.

AN EMPIRE BUILDER. Received 20,12.63 a.m. Mklboobnb, May 86, Mr Seddon told an interviewer prior to his departure for Adelaide that 1m and Mr Deakin were working on parallel lions with regard to the New Hebrides. He said "We must try to get the islands entirely into British f!j B'w 8 'w J k° w weuld he get rid of the French, he replied, "By giving them concessions elsewhere. I think we can find them concessions in the Pacific." He mentioned he had ascertained from the French fi« m i while in Sydney that the French Government had no intention of eitab. lishing a penal settlement at Tahiti or elsewhere in the Pacific.