CONVICTS NOT WELCOME.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9064, 3 February 1908, Page 5

CONVICTS NOT WELCOME.

Press Association —Copyright. Received Feb. 3, 1 a.m, Sydney, Feb. 3. Mr Wade is of opinion that some protest should be made against the proposal of the Imperial Party in Germany to send convicts to their Pacific possessions. Melbourne, Feb 3. Mr Deakin, in an interview regarding the German convict proposal, said:—“One does not comment on a proposal made to a foreign Parliament, because comment at this stage might be an intrusion. All I will say is that the German Reichstag is certain to consider the influence upon its own tropical! possessions of the influx of such a class of settlers. We could not witness such a departure without regret for their settlements on the Pacific, and without some apprehension for our own. ’ ’

THE GERMAN COUNSEL. MAKES A REASSURINRG STATEMENT. Press Association —Copyright. Received February 3. 11.17 a.m. Sydney, February 3. The German Consul-General does not attach importance |[to the suggestion to establish a penal settlement. The party that recommends the proposal is a small one and danse 5 of the Reciprocity agreement between Germany and England made in 1886 concerning the freedom of trade between German and British possessions says that both Governments engage not to establish any penal settlement in or transport convicts to the Western Pacific.