Volume 14 Australasia - dana ward's homepage

391 AUSTRALASIA.was adequately represented. But iu 1888 a second conference, attended hy dolegatesirom all the Australasian states, discussed the establishment of supremetribunals for the whole group of colonies. South Australia also, hitherto opposedto all projects of federation, has recently joined the movement. Australia naturallylooks forward to the time when the confederation will be joined not only byBritish New Guinea and Fiji but by allthe Pacific islands already acqiiired or tobe acquired by Great Britain, and thus secure an incontested hegemony throughout169.— Kino Geokoe Sound.Scale 1 : 230,000.ISO Fret andupwards.the southern hemisphere. In many instances, notably during the recent discussionswith France on the subject of the New Hebrides and the transport of convictsto New Caledonia, it became evident that the Australians asjiiire soon to be mastersin the Austral regions, and proclaim, Kke the North Americans, their " llonroedoctrine"—the Oceanic World for the Oceanians.As a militarjf power Australasia would already present formidable difficultiesto a foreign invader, for the adult population between their twentieth and fortiethyear exceeds half a million of men thoroughly organised iu volunteer corps, which