NEW HEBRIDES CONVENTION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81884, 9 November 1906, Page 3

NEW HEBRIDES CONVENTION

THE THUNDERER'S REVIEW. BASIS FOR IMPERIAL ZOLLVEREIN. ENGLAND'S POINT OF VIEW. Received Stli, 11.57 p.m. London, November S.

The New Hebrides Convention is Issued as a Parliamentary paper. The Times says the imperial authorities committed a grave error at the beginning of the vear in agreeing to hold a joint conference regarding the Hebrides without Australia. If an Australian representative had attended, the natural n.istakes ,f agreeing to the munieipal pmvis'ons of the Convention might not have been committed. To conduct the negot ations without Australia was wrong in principle. The Times hopes Mr Deakin at ihe Imperial Conference will not waste time in recrimination, but will devote his energies to insisting on the creation of some permanent means of communication between the Commonwealth and the Foreign Office, and preventing the recurrence of a similar sacrifice of Australian interests and aspirations. The Morning Post says Australian thinkers see the local inconvenience!, of joint control, but find it difficult to appreciate the much more important problem of Britains relat'pns with the great Powers, who are much nearer to England than the Hebrides are to Australia.