THE NEW HEBRIDES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 11997, 4 September 1909, Page 5

THE NEW HEBRIDES.

.FRENCH COLONISATION. Press Association-Bv Telegraph-Copyright ; SYDNEY, Sept.' d.-,-Mr Janies Burns,. of Burns, Philip, and C°-» ;-whb has'returned'froiri a toiir of the New llebrides,, says, that .vthe outliiok at the; islands at j>K*ent.is all in favour of-jthe. French. A ; large amount of niopey has been supplied Ijiy the Cotnpany supported ; ,by,,the ; Gpyernnteni, enables .settlers io, develop, thein holdings; ..Colonisation, iis-proi'cediiig rapidly on the French '-side;- while British immigration"is pi'a'ctiiia'lly "a.t ,a/st;ind--still. ; One .i;casbii. for the.increase./.of the. French is the, (lepressipii in i.trade wifh: New; Caledonia. . . Many are leaving --..there ,ahd settlibi; iiuthe -New Hebrides. Mr Burns (let^larps' that the natives are depressing sp'rapidly thattj,t . seems, only, a iiiatter;.pl/ 1 -,tiniPi..|iei'<>rb the frhole race will;':bet.' \v : tped;<<iut ) i;and the islands, lefl solely to. the. whites. Some islands, which: five or si.v: years ago, had'2o(» pr now have only >500,0r |GOOwJ. -v --■ '.. : .--