NEW HEBRIDES.
Press Association. —Copyright. Melbodene, April 27. Captain Withford, one of the oldest traders to the KewUchridcs, informed an inter viewer, that the French have a free hand in landing liquor and firearms on the islands, and the result is that the French are securing the hulk of the trade, and the British are hopelessly handicapped. All the Australian Government has ever done has been to use its power aaginst British settlers by fining them. In fact, Britishers are still left in the New Hebrides not because of British protection, but in spite of its absence. British regulations are openly ignored by French settlers and treated as a farce. It is in every way a disadvantage for a man to own himself a Britisher. Captain Withford has little faith in the new convention, and says it will probably be the same old heartbreaking story over again—regulations enforced aginst the British and laughed at by the French.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8798, 27 April 1907, Page 2
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157NEW HEBRIDES. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8798, 27 April 1907, Page 2
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