ALIENS ACT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1639, 4 January 1906, Page 2

ALIENS ACT.

A TROUBLESOME CASE By lolegfaph, Press 'Asn’n, Copyrifih Received 11 p.m., Jon. 3. Sydney, Jan. 3. A Syrian named Molouf was to have gono to New Zealand by tho Manuka accordance with tho dictum of tbo Mm ,s for External Adairs that bo must leave Australia. Just boforo tbo steamer sail Maiouf informed tho authoritiee that .» intended to stay aud fight oho ma‘ 10 out, . „ Maiouf is au accredited America citizen by residence ecntit'on 0 , ana Wa educated there. Had ho left the Stato jj ® American eonaul would have entered formal protest against depertation of an American citizen. _ . Malouf’s uncle is a very wealthy rest dent of Sydney, and intends lo take his nephew's case up before the courts of the Empire. . . Tho Prime Minister’s explanation P u,u a different complexion on the case. Maiouf was only granted a permit to re main a year to wmd up some business oi bis mother’s. He appealed for an evasion. The American consul supported his application, affirming that ho would guar* anteo his departure at tbo expiry of t extended poriod. When the time oamo Maiouf asked to be a'lowed to stay permanently, but the Government were inexorable.