THE NEW HEBRIDES
A SILENT STRUGGLE FOR SUPREMACY. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, September 25. (Received September 25, at, 10 am.) A petition signed by sixty-nine adult, bona fide male settlers in the New Hebrides has beet) sent to the Federal Premier praying for an improvement, of the conditions under which British settlers work in (he group. '1 he petition points out that a silent struggle is being carried on by rhe tuo nations for local supremacy, and grave doubs exist as to which will gain the upper Irand. Present indications: appear to point to ultimate French control. The French settlers number 255 and the British 214. The French subsidies and superior transport facilitiesgive the French the pull over their rivals. The petitioners suggest that the Commonwealth Government allow British colonists the jame preference with regard to import duUes on produce, as is at present enjoyed by their French neighbors.
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Evening Star, Issue 12307, 23 September 1904, Page 6
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149THE NEW HEBRIDES Evening Star, Issue 12307, 23 September 1904, Page 6
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