THE ALIEN LAW.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 238, 6 April 1912, Page 5

THE ALIEN LAW.

THE HEIGHT OF THE RIDICULOUS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Palmerst'on N., April 5. There has heen in Palmerston North for the last three weeks Mrs. Elio'tt. widow 'of an Englishman, daughter of a Scotch father and grandfather! - and a Eurasian mother. Her father was a tea planter in Ceylon, as are her brothers. Mrs. Eliott hetr'self has Wo children an Ceylon. She came with Mrs. Geo. S'tockwell, of Palmerston, to nurse her grandchild, wiio was ordered from •Ceyloni •as it was dying .of dysentry and malaria, and brought the child! over to New Zealand. The party came from Ceylon by the Orient line. No difficulty was anticipated on leaving; Ceylon as to her being able to return there.. At Freroantle the difficulties began under the alien latw, and a bond for £IOO was signed. From (Sydney she desired to return to her Tvome, but the shipping authorities would not permit it, on the ground® that the undertaking was that she should! come on to New Zealand, and) that this engagement must be fulfilled. /Sh,e came here doily, but when it was proposed that she should return the Orient Company has communicated through the Union Steamship Company that it cannot, under the alien law, taike her back, and, therefore, the Union 'Company cannot 'take her to Sydney. The next effect is that a: British subject, anil »wife and daughter of an "Englishman andi Scotchman' through three generations, is blocked from going out of the country because some one holds 'she 'shtould not have come into it. Mrs. Elio'tt is greatly concerned alt the situation to which the Australian arrangements,, as interpreted hy the Sydney office of the Orient Company, has brought her. There ■ is no difficulty on the New Zealand side, as the Union Company, if assured that it will he all right on the Sydney side, will take Mrs. Eliott to that port.