NEW HEBRIDES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 54, 5 March 1914, Page 7

NEW HEBRIDES

RESPONSIBILITY FOR ADMINISTRATION WILL AUSTRALIA ACCEPT IT? POURPARLERS WITH FRANCE. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.- Copyright.) LONDON, 4th March. In the House of Commons, Sir C. Kinloch-Cooke asked Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary, to enquire whether Australia would accept responsibility for the administration of the ?few Hebrides. Sir Edward. Grey said it was impossible to make suph a suggestion without asking whether they would themselves undertake to purchase or make an exchange of territory. (Received March 5, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, 4th March. Mr. F. D. Acland (Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs) has informed Mr. W, Joynson-Hicks (M.P. for Middlesex) that pourparlers have been opened with France .towards a conference to discuss details regarding the New Hebrides. AN APPEAL TO MR. MASSEY. COMMONWEALTH'S ATTITUDE. (Received- March 5, 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Representations have been made to the Right Hon. Mr. Masscy (Premier of New Zealand) by the Presbyterian Missions Board of Australia, asking the Dominion to use its influence 111 supporting the protest to Mr. Lewis Harcourt regarding the New Hebrides. Referring to the cabled su"«estion that Australia should acquire the French rights in the New Hebrides by_ purchase, the Hon. P. M. Glynn (Minister of External Affairs) said the Commonwealth was prepared to meet any opportunity of settling the question on lines honourable to _ the two nations concerned, whether it involved pecuniary or other methods of adjustment.