THE NEW HEBRIDES.
BRITISH HOPELESSLY HANDI
CAPPED,
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. / _ SYDNEY, April 27. Captain Withford, one of the oldest traders to the New Hebrides, informed an interviewer that the French had a freo band in landing liquor and fire-arms at the islands. The result- was that the French were Kcuring the bulk of the trade, and the British were hopelessly handicapped. All tho Australian Government had ever done had been to use its naval power' against, British settlers in lining tlicm. T'lie fact was that Britishers were still left- at the New Hebrides, not because of British protection, but in spite of its absence. British regulations were openly ignored'by French settlers, and treated as a farce in every way. It was a disadvantage for a man to own himself a British subject. Captain Withford has little fnitli in the new convention. It will probably bo the same old -heart-breaking story over agjiin—regulations enforced by the British laughed at by the French.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13889, 29 April 1907, Page 5
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161THE NEW HEBRIDES. Otago Daily Times, Issue 13889, 29 April 1907, Page 5
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