ASIATIC RESTRICTIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 66, 17 March 1908, Page 5

ASIATIC RESTRICTIONS.

— ! TJHEXFEC---D EFFECTS. U "ABSURD AND DANGEROUS i MUDDLE." (Received 7.53 a.m.) LONDON, March 16. * "The Times" Vancouver correspondent v -tates that the immigration situation is t becoming an absurd and dangerous jnuddle-" The "Supreme Court, it points j. tut, has discharged IS Hindoos on the _ iroiind that the Natal Act is ultra vires, f . under Order-in-Council a German _ ivho is a desirable immigrant, has ieen refused admission because he came - Srom Australia. . The attempt to prevent the granting of : naturalisation papers to Japanese fisher- j men is causing more indignation among the Japanese than any other anti-Japan- .- ese movement on the part of the British Columbian Government. I [The British Columbian Act apparently aimed at making the same provisions o against the indirect Asiatic immigrant '1 as the American legislation when the 1 latter ifcade special conditions a-s to s Japanese arrivals from Honolulu. The British Columbian Act, however, h..s been jeemingly made by careless drafting too wide in its scope, and applies to white as well as coloured "transmigrants"— if the word may be coined to suit the occasion.] I