COLOUR PROBLEM.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 126, 20 February 1908, Page 7

COLOUR PROBLEM.

« : AN IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. THE TIME DEEMED INOPPORTUNE. BY TELEGRAM —PRESS ASSOTIATION— COPYRIOKT. London, February 18. In tho Houso of Lords, Lord Ampthiil, who was Viceroy of India (pro torn) in 1904, asked if tho Government intended to invito tho Governments of tho colonies to discuss, by conference or otherwise,: tho question of tho treatment of Asiatics in tho colonies, with a view to arriving at, an agreement upon general principles of Imperial tion.Lord' Elgin, .Secretary of Stato for the Colonics, in reply, said tho. subject was debated at tho Imperial Conference by Sir William Lyno, of Australia, and Sir James Maolcay (representing, India). Tho discussions ivoro. somewhat lively,. Sir William Lyne. : adopting an uncompromising position, and prescribing, conditions which the Government of. India could never assent to. New Zealand's attitudo was tho samo as , Sir William Lyno's. It would, added Lord Eflgin, bo difficult to initiate a fresh discussion so soon after tho conference; besides, it would bo scarcely fair to> begin again before the ink- was dry of settlements recently concluded by Canada and : the Transvaal. .. However, ho undertook to . ufie tho first, opportunity, either by conferencs or somo moro. diplomatic method, to havo tho question considered; but tho present . moment was inopportuno. \ .SHADOWED, i

; . JAPAN AND;AMERICA'S FLEET. ALLEGED SPY-SHIP. BT TELEGRAPH —FREES ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT. (Rec. Fob. 19, 10 p.m.) New York, February 19. The Now York newspapers accuse tlio Japanese Government steamer Kasato Maru of shadowing tlio Anieriean fleet in Chilian waters. The Kasato Maru is equipped with wireless telegraphy.