ASTONISHING CASE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1407, 6 April 1912, Page 5

ASTONISHING CASE.

'A LADY AND THE ALIEN LAW. ißy Yeleeraph—Frcss Association.l Palmerston, April 5. Thero has bson. in Palmerston for tho last three, weeks a Mrs. Elintt. widow of nn Englishman, daughter of a Scotch father nud grandfnthtr, and a Eurasian mother. Her father was a tea planter in Oeylon, ns are her brothers, and Mrs. Ehott herself has two children, in Ceylon. Bho camo with Mrs. Geo. 'Stockwell, of Palmerston, to nurse her grandchild, who was ordered from Ceylon, as it was dying of malaria, and she brought tho child over to New Zealand. Tho party camo from Ceylon by tho Orient Lino, and no difficulty was anticipated on leaving Ceylon as to her being ablo to return there. At I'relnantle, however, difficulties began under tho alien law, and a bond for was signed. From Sydney she desired to return to Ivjr home, but the shipping authorities would not permit it on the grounds that tho undertaking, was that 6ho ehoiild come on to New Zealand, and tliat this ensng-ement must bo fulfilled. She came here duly, but, when it was proposed that she should return, the Orient Company communicated (through tho Union Steam Ship Company) that it cannot, under tho alien , laiv, take her back, and, therefore, tho Union Company cannot take her to Sydney. Tha effect is that a British subject and wife and daughter of Englishmen and Scotchmen through three generations is blocked from going out of the country because someone holds that sho should not have come into Mrs. Eliott ig greatly concerned at tho situation to which the Australian arrangements, as interpreted by the Sydney office of the Orient Company, have brought her. There is no difficulty on tho New Zealand side, as tho Union Company, if assured that it will bo all right on tho Sydney side, will take Mrs. Eliott to that port.