INDIANS IN THE TRANSVAAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 308, 3 January 1908, Page 2

INDIANS IN THE TRANSVAAL.

j LOSJJOX I'RESS COMMENTS. • j t London, January 1. : The Telegraph, replying to Uhandi's, i remark that the .British Government I I must clmose between India and the j colonies, says: "liandhi is eloquent, \ ! but wrong. We are not going to co- | orce the white Dominions lior evacuate I India. \V e ar<! unable to exercise the | veto nominally within the discretion of ' (lie Home (I'overnnicnt without exeilj ing alarm from Vancouver to Mel- ; liourne. The only solution is to make I British East Africa a colonial annex ! of India."

The Daily Mail says the emergence everywhere of Asiatic problems is the most significant fact of ]!)t>7. The Times' survey of the year, referring to Mr Winston Churchill's visit to East Africa, says lie has hitherto spoken with much reserve, lmt the curious are expecting details a nd a policy when Parliament meets. A VIGOROUS PROTEST. Received 2nd, 9.25 p.m. Pretoria, January 2. ' A meeting of 2000 Indians at Johannesburg resolved to continue the rc- | sistance against the restriction regulai tions. They vigorously protested against Lord Elgin's sanctioning of the Immigration Act, which, they maintained, surrendered the duty of protecting the interests of Hie weaker in the unrepresented states who were llritkli subjects. Tiki Indians, they declared, snll'crcii less under the former regime.

THE COLONIES REBUKED. THE TIMES OX THE SITUATION. Received 2nd, 10-3 p.m. London, January 2. The Times hopes that the fact of a respite having been temporarily granted to Indians in the Transvaal for resisting the magistrates' orders to quit may be due to counsels of wisdom and moderation from Lord Elgin. The voice of the Imperial Government might even now make itself effectively heard in Pretoria to restrain the Transvaal from extreme measures towards the Indians already settled. The Times then warns the colonies that whilst mopt proudly proclaiming their determination to be white countries. they must absolutely depend upon the Mother Land for protection. Without that protection, how long, it asks, could Australia, for example, exclude the Japanese? Not for six months after the Japanese made up their minds that settling on the grounds of Australia ivas worth an expedition. The Imperial Government was not without nie.iiH of insisting upon reasonable compromises in the various colonies in dealing with this gravest and most urgent Imperial problem. Tt was soluble only by a direct appeal to a sense of Tmperi il responsibility on the part of the sister States of the Empire. The Times, in its closing remarks, refers to th" Indian and Asiatic difficulty genwallv.

EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE. Per Press Association. Auckland, Thursday. The twenty-fifth conference of the New Zealand Educational Institute opened this morning, Mr. James Aitken, 8.A., presiding. The visiting members were warmly welcomed by the Mayor, who expressed the opinion that the attitude of the State towards teachers in New Zealand left something to be desired, and the emoluments of the teaching profession had not been commensurate with the importance of its work.

•Mr. Aitken said dual management was responsible for the diiliculty now experienced in obtaining a sensible and proper scheme of promotion and appointment such as exists in every other branch of the public service. He did not lor a moment believe dual management was necessary. School committee control was infinitely preferable to a body elected as Education Boards are. lie thought the roll number would be a fairer basis for grading school* and paying teachers than average attendance. ' Some amendments have been made in Ihe clauses of the constiiiuiun, A motion to delele the clause that non-nflici i 1 members of the executive .who have acted for four years continuously shall not 1 v eligible for re-election until the expiration of twelve months was carried by ■».) to 10.

Oilier Resolutions proposing minor amendments which appeared on tlio order-paper wore also carried. -A "M Mlingtnn reeummeiidafinn allirmin<; tiie desirability of revising tlie scale ol' stalling with a view to str<>ngthenin;> statl's so as io avoid unduly large classes was carried.

A North Canterbury motion to the etleet thiil every school could have at least sixty per cent, of adult teachers was lost, it tii.ji,.; stated that in the majority of case* the proportion was already sixty per cent. An Auckland recommendation that the Minister be asked to provide for a revision of the existing provision for ipiartcrly adjustment of shilling was lent. The Institute concluded the dav's sitting at 5.;!(1 o'clock. The Promotion Committee's report is tin' lirst order of the day for to-morrow. CONSTABLES ATTACKED BY A MOB. |

Per Press Association. Wellington, Last Xiglit. Karly yesterday morning a crowd of se\ en or eight hundred people commenced undue rowdyism in Petone's main street. One man wan arrested, ami tlnee constables had a severe experience ill getting him to the station. The crowd endeavored to rush tlieni. The police diew their batons and succeeded in driving them back several times." At TR> I hey got the prisoner locked up. The mail was lined U.'i or three weeks' imprisonment for disorderly conduct.