CONTINENTAL MIGRATION.
A SECRET CONTRACT.
REVELATIONS IN DOMINION
HOUSE.
* % Received 20,11.3 Ottawa, May 19. Mr 1 Proston, Canadian Emigration Commissioner in England, gave sen.
satienal evidence before the Dominion Houso o! Representative's Committee
on colonization.
Relating to affairs in connection with tho inception of the North ' ? Atlanta Trading Company, he declared > that after Lord Strathoona and J. Q. Coloner, Secretary to the Canadian High Commissioner, held a meeting •; with steamship agents at Hamburg in 1898 to disouss the enlargement of the -fm
Held of Continental migration to |j Canada, Baron Hatifieldt, then Gformtn - a Ambassador in England, was instruct. --J ed that unless Lord Strathrona wit able to satisfactorily explain his action, it was inadvisable that Lord Strath' tH nona should return Jto Germany, Mr J jj Preston understood that the expUn- If ■ition nude through Lord (Salisbnry '.J was that the German law would not b« "a transgressed. Mr Preston added that <3 the company was formed, the Con- ' tinental booking agents being pledged '' not to riolato tho laws of the countries wherein tney operated. JFhe names cf : those associated in the matter were kept confidential. : i
Mr Fielding, Minister of Finance, announced in the Dominion House that Lord Strathoona had written
declaring that tho contract with the $1 Company and the names waro oon- >1 ftdential. • v
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8115, 21 May 1906, Page 2
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219CONTINENTAL MIGRATION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8115, 21 May 1906, Page 2
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