THE CHINESE PUZZLE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 67, 23 March 1904, Page 2

THE CHINESE PUZZLE.

HlVAli CONTENTIONS.. LONDO.V, March 21. The (iovernmeiit iwt Sir llcurj( (.'iiiiHilH'll-Huiinci'iimn'.s amendment—-ci-iisiii-injf Ministers for not utWitring, tilt; Crown to veto this Transvaal Chinese Ordinance— tvilli a direct Bf native. The ni.'WS[ni|)i'rs are full of correspondence regiirdiiig the labour quen> eion. Omit interest is exhibited by. both Kilil'S. Air Artinu' .'i'arkhntn, member for Mansfield, a referendum. He is ronihlent that tin overwhelming majority in I liv 1 Huivd iniiicy would vote for introducing Chinese. Sir Frank Swettenhnra, ex-Gover-nor of the .Straits Settlement, and I.ady I.uganl (nee Flora Shaw) »upport lira experiment and Sir 11. 11, .I<ilhiki on, CVnsml-lienerul for Ugart<la. opposes it. Mr Frederick Alackarness, Kccorda* of appeals to the Archbishop of Canterbury to condemn Chinese labour, lie declares the mine owners are blind guides of their interests, and do not justify legislation that will prove degrading to human labour, repellent to tlio col'omes and shocking to tho instincts of Britishers. .Mr William Mather, lato General Secretary to the Transvaal Miners' Association, has assured Mr H. Pike i'oase, M.[>. for Darlington, that native labour is insuHicient, that the employment of white m friers is physically and economically impossible, and that the introduction of AsiatJCH will largely increase tho denaanii for white labour.

"(}i;excijjn<; <;olo.nialj affection." A iI(JEI{ S UiiTEUFL'GE. (lioccived March 22, 9.H8 p.m.) i.UMiON, March 22, A son of Mr JI. A. Grainger, the for South AusftralUi, ,'i» an article contributed to the Westminster Gazette, says that colonial affection for the Motherland will l»e quenched by the callous surrender oi' the results of the war to the yellow race, The ./oliamiesburg correspondent of the Cologne Gazette states that tho Boer manifesto against the Chinese was a cleverly aimed poisoned arrow, intended to impede the natural course of events. The decline of tho mining industry would be regarded :is tantamount to a i"etrogressioa of the Imperial idea. The manifesto did not reflect populur opinion,

DISCUSSION IN IMPEIiIAL PAIV LIAMENT. A G'OMMONEK RESIGNS. (licceived March 23, 0.83 a.m.) LONDON, March 22. Sir Ilenry-Campbell Ilunnerman's motion of censure was negatived by 2!t'J votes to IM2. Twelve Unionists and sixty-two Nationalists voted with the minority. Fifty-one Unionists were absent. Major J. E. 11. Seele.v (Isle of Wight) resigned as a protest against the Government's action. Tile House of Lords negatived Lord Coleridge's anti-Chinese amendment liy S)7 votes to 25. Tile Bishop of Hereford fiercely assailed Lord Milner, eliciting much disapproval. The Archbishop of Canterbury feared the Chinese would throw back the development of Kaflir life and energy, hut he was unable to oppose the action of the Government if it was thought tho importation was necessary and right.