JAPANESE IMMIGRATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 322, 23 January 1908, Page 3

JAPANESE IMMIGRATION.

CANADIAN RESTRICT] UN S.

SUCCESSFUL NEGOTIATIONS. Keceived 22nd, IUI p.m. Ottawa, January 22. Mr. Lctuieux's statement in the l>ottialon Uouqe of Parliament shows th»i Count Hayjuhi on December 23rd wrote that although the treaty between Japan and Canada absolutely guaranteed to Japanese subjects full liberty to en ter and reside In Canada, the Japanese Government did not intend to insist on the complete enjoyment of rights privileges when it involved a disregard" of the special conditions prevailing in Canada. The Government would tata efficient means to restrict emigration Ouada, and was earnestly desirous to j promote the growth and stability of cordial relations.

Mr Icmieuz states that most stripgent regulations have been issued to Japanese local governors and consuls in Ouada which were sufficient for Calif' ada's purposes. With the emigration from the Japanese carefully regulated aid emigration from Hawaii completely doled all trouble regarding Orientfaicmigntion would be eliminated. emigration company responsible for t|ieinflux into British Columbia has been suppressed. Count Hayashi's dignified and volunM tarr assurances constituted a solemn engagement. The exclusion of Japanese br law would have been a serious,' breach of the Anglo-.TapaneSe alliance ■taee it was impossible to asjc a rising Eastern Power and a Britiih ally fty brand its subjects as an inferior ra<M which thev arc not.

Mr Lemieux was warmly congratulated.

Received 22nd, 0.52 p.m. Victoria fRC.I. January 82. TV AimeniWy- read for tli<" first timet • Government wramiro restricting Asiatic Immigration on the lines of the National 'Art.