AUSTRALIA AND HER NEIGHBOURS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8794, 23 April 1907, Page 2

AUSTRALIA AND HER NEIGHBOURS.

Press Association. —Copyright. Sydney March 23. The morning papers commenting on Mr Deakin's references at the Pilgrim's banquet to the position in the Pacific,' urge the necessity of Australia learning to face the altered circumstances which the presence and activity of foreign nations has created.

Telegraph adds when the Panama Canal is open and the hustle for trade receives a '"powerful gimpetus derived from the influx of a huge volume of new shipping to tho Pacific, Australia can hardly fail to bo influenced by her neighbours more acutely than at present. Restrictiouist and cxclusionist tactics will no longer avail, and Australia's period of isolation will be over.