An Immigration Restriction Episode.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7950, 13 October 1905, Page 3

An Immigration Restriction Episode.

Trouble Over a Groom. London, Oct. 11. The- Tim*-; based a paragraph headed "An Knglishman excluded from Australia" upon a newspaper cuttini; «ent from Melbourne*, giving ollieial in the rape of a groom named fiooderham. The lion. Ti. TV i\i««* wrole a letter to The Times in which he characterised the story as absurd, and a false, "stinking fish" yarn. He declared that careful search failed to reveal the ollieial document* ; referred to. The Times cited from a ( m-wspaper text of Mr Coghlan's certi- | Create and i Dalgetv's letter on the subject, remarking that it was extremely difficult to learn Australia's real mind yet. The Time assorted that they were apparently authoritative declarations in ono sen-e and then |>crsonal experience in the opposite sense. Sydney, 0ct.12. nooderhani. the groom. ramc to Sydney from England with horses. Before leaving England he was furnished with a letter from the Dalcretv Company. statin? that as he was jjoinu out tinder contract he would not be allowed to stay in Australia, and at the same time furnishing him with a certificate obtained from Mr (Aepnt-Oeneral) exempting him from (hp provisions of the Immigration Ite•ftriction AH for a period of six months. Mr Deakin, Federal Premier, when fjiipstioned in the Douse about the matter, said that he had informed Mr 1 Coghlan, who had communicated with , j him on the subject that no certificate of 1 exemption was necessary in this case, | but apparently the letter to Mr CoghJ lan was not rielivereu before GooderIhnrn left London. Mr Deakin further I stated that lie \va< . making enquiries I with the object nf letting it be known that exemption certificates were abso lately unnecessary in such cases.