BRITISH POLITICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1780, 11 June 1906, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

QUESTION OF CHINESE LABOR.

SPEECH BY MR CHURCHILL.

By telegraph, Fnn Abb’h, Cofiyrigh

Received 4.82 p.m., June 10.

London, June 9,

In tho House of Commons Mr Churchill intimatod that Government would not be forgetful of the obligations towards existing settlors when framing the new constitution.

Ho recapitulated the Government policy in regard to the Chinese, but admitted that no general dosire for repatriation was evinced by the ooolits. Never* theless, the extra expenao of the supervision was producing its effeots on mine owners, who were not now nearly so enamoured of the experiment as for-' merly. Aooordiog to his information white miners were increasingly adverse to Chinese labor.g] If this were so, Government wero justified in trusting the matter to the judgment and decision of a freely and fairly elected Transvaal Parliament. Mr Churchill added: Many workers in Johannesburg have been a-ked to demonstrate against the Liberals, or to help to burn Sir Campbell-Bannerman in effigy, and sign protests against the present Government’s anli-Chinese policy, but he anticipated that when under the seoreoy of the ballot the workers eleoted their parliamentary representatives, it would not be tho mine owners who would Bit in Parliament. The work of Sir Weet Ridgeway's oommittee had so enormously simplified the Government’s task that he woull be able to promise a decisive settle* ment of the constitution question within Bix weeks.

DISSATIBFAOTION OF RADICALS AND L ABOBITEB.

By telegraph, Presn AmX CofyEight

Reoeived 4.21 p.m., June 10, , London, June 9. The House of Commons debated the Colonial Office vote. . Sir Dickson Poynder urged tbe advisability of vigorous land settlement in the Transvaal and Oraogia, plaoing it on a permanent footing. Radices and Laborites strongly complained of nonrepatriation of tho Chinese on the Rand, and warned the Government of the dissatisfaction of their constituents at the non-fulfilment of election pledges.