THE NEW HEBRIDES

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 13128, 9 November 1906, Page 5

THE NEW HEBRIDES

PUBLICATION OF THE CONVENTION. ENGLISH PRESS COMMEN&K United ( Press: Association —Per JSeitfic Received 11.37 p.m., November* Bs. ' " LONDON, NovemEßr;yß. The New Hebrides Convention has 'been issued as a Parliamentary paper. „ ' ; y The "Times" says that authorities committed' a.grave ertorJaJttfce. beginning of the year by agreeing: d a joint conference on the without Australia. If the Australian representatives had attended the natural mistake of agreeing to the municipal provisions of the convention, might not have been committed. The conduct of negotiations without Australia was wrong in principle. The "Times" hopes that Mr Deakin, the Federal Premier, at the Imperial Conference will not waste time ini recrimination, but will devote his energies to insisting on the creation of some permanent means of communication between the Commonwealth and the Foreign Office, thus preventing the recurrence of a similar sacrifice of Australian interests and aspirations. The " Morning Post" says that Australian thinkers may see local inconveniences in joint control, but they will find it difficult to appreciate the much more important problem of Britain's relations with the great Powers, who are xnucb nearer England than the New Hebrides are to Australia-