CABLE NEWS. AUSTRALIAN GRIEVANCES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 6 April 1908, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN GRIEVANCES

(BY BLaUTBIC IBLBQEAFK. — COPTBIOUI.]

COLONIAL OFFICE MISMANAGEA iV MENT.

IMPERIAL NEGLECT.

- i[ p& BSS. ASSOCIATION.] [Rtced-ved April 6, 8.4 a.m.)

LOKDONi April 5.

Tha Standard, commenting on a penjphlfit leanbddyingraV series of ar- s ticks published in the Sydney Morn-; ing llexald a'fc the ! Wno! ctf ' last year, dealing with tho British poiicy in the Pacific, says it is a. painful record of and

Cclooual Ofi.ee mismanagement Impraial neglect. All thjo talk about /Empire during the last two decades left Downing street nearly untoueh-s cd. The Australian grievances are a©--ftual. Other nations associate then\- : -selves with merchants aud settlers' | 'Wwrprwes, but Britain leaves the! merchanta to fight their own battles^ ,The Standard cites the history of the, Marshall Islands and the New He- : brides. It does- nrtt attribute the responsibility -whtlly to the laxity and jinddeccfc cf the lie^krtmmta, but 'blames Parliament and the electorates ■for Veing abfeorbed' in paiiy ccoaflicts and parochial caivs.