ASIATIC IMMIGRATION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXIII, Issue 9038, 30 December 1907, Page 5

ASIATIC IMMIGRATION.

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Press Association —Copyright. Received Dec. 39, 4.32 p.m. London, Dec. 38.

The Times says that the Imperial assent to the Immigration Restriction Act enables the Transvaal to enforce Asiatic registrations by deporting passive resisters. The Times recommends the Imperial Secretarial Department to organise a commission, representing the Empire, to investigate the Asiatic problem, so as to make plain mutual difficulties if possible. The evidence of some of our most exclusive colonies would show that it was impossible to bang the door entirely against the growing tide of population of the East, and possibly also convince us that unrestrained immigration of Asiatics would be fatal to our civilisation and race. Certain parts of the Empire most suited to Orientals and least suited to our habits, might be specially reserved for Oriental immigration. TROUBLE IN THE TRANSVAAL. * Received Deo. 28, 8.30 p.m. Capetown, Dec. 28. Gandhi, an Indian barrister, adressed a mass meeting of Indians on the Rand. He declared that Lord Elgin’s action in sanctioning the Immigration Act unduly strained Indian loyalty, for it was a barbarous and savage measure, although passed by an avowedly Christian Government. Gandhi and eight compatriots were prosecuted for failing to register under the Act, but were released on parole. Many Indians have been arrested elsewhere in the Transvaal. OUTRAGE IN CANADA. Received Dec. 39, 4.55 p.m. New York, Dec. 38. Advices from Portland, Oregon, erroneously reported that a citizen had been murdered in a Chinese restaurant. This led 1500 inhabitants of Lethbridge, Alberta district, to wreck the Oriental quarter of the town, the police being powerless. The brigade of mounted police ultimately dispersed the rioters.