THE NEW HEBRIDES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81880, 3 November 1906, Page 3

THE NEW HEBRIDES.

- CHURCHILL S REMARKABLE SlAlr.Mt.iSi. *"' WARNING TO FUTURE AUSTRALIANS. Sydney t November 2. The Herald says: "Mr Churcaill has apparently orangey misunderatood tne attitude of we CommonW»alth and New Zealand in regard to the New Hebrides When Mr Churchill "tates that Australian acouieicence in the Convention has Seen obtained he will be stretching the courtesy of diplomacy to break- .'-- iwr-p°;nt. What Mr Deakin and Sir x ij G". Ward said in the end was that is the Imperial Government had discarded their proposal, they left tne retpons bihty ot completing the Con- ; vtntion on the shoulders of the COl-1 onul Office. They should not have I ■aid this, but should have declared plainly that the Convention was, and is, opposed to the best interests ot New Zealand and Australia, jnd that they therefore must refuse to sanction it. And any way, their accept-1 ance has been translated as acquis-: pence in the policy of the new arrangement, and th* translation of 1 their attitude wUI be an eloquent warning for future Australians. We may hardly be blamed for recognising in the Convention new evidence of a desire to buy foreign fnen.Chip at the expense of the colonies. .The Convention is absolutely against the interests of both of the colonies concerned and our Empire and it as » weak, unwothy concession to pol--1 geness o pressue." STATEMENT BY MR DEAKIN. 'COLONIES HAD NO OPTION. Received 3rd, 1.10 a.m. Melbourne, November 2. Mr Deakin states the Commonwealth and New Zealand Governments' had no option but to leav he whole responsibility of the Ne Hebrides Convention v»«h the lu.penal government.