TREATMENT OF ASIATICS
LONDON, February 18.
In the House of Lords, Lord Ampthill asked if the Government intended to invite the Governments of the various colonies to- discuss, by a conference or otherwise, the question of the treatment of Asiatics in the colonies, with a view to arriving at an ageement upon some general principles of Imperial application.
Lord Elgin replied thai the subject was debated at the Imperial Conference by Sir William L^me and Sir J. L. MacKay. The discussionsgjjwere somewhat lively, Sir William Lyne adopting an uncompromising position, and prescribing conditions that the Government of India could never assent tog New Zealand's attitude was much the same as Sir W. J. Lyne's. It would be difficult to initiate a fresh discussion so soon after the recent Premiers' Conference. Besidets. it would be scarcely fair to begin again before the ink was dry of tho settlements recently concluded by Canada and the Transvaal. He, however, undertook to use the first opportunity, either by conferencs or by some more diplomatic method, to piep.tie tho way, but the present moment was not opportune.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2815, 26 February 1908, Page 30
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