COLOUR PROBLEM.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 122, 15 February 1908, Page 5

COLOUR PROBLEM.

;'A MATTER, FOR THE SECRETARIAT.' S '■ j ; iMPORTANT ISSUE dv TELEGnArir—mess, association—copyright. (Rec. Feb. ■ 15, 0.35 a.m-)' ■" London, Febiuary 14. , . In the House of Commons, in connection with a resolution adopted by tho Imperial Conference on May 9, Mr: Churchill, UnderSecretary for the Colonies, 111 reply to Sir J. S. Bandies (Conservative), said the machinery! of the Seci-etariat established jn connection- with the Colonial Office would* doubtless lend itself to consideration-of tho .jmportant question of the status of natural born Asiatic British subjects; equally with tho. status of . those naturalised, . : '." V COLONIES'. POWERS. On May 0 Sir Joseph Ward moved a rc-o-lution—wliichi howevor; seems to have been not carried,: but left'to a subsidiary conferoncO;Hot yet held—to. the' effect tlilit naturalisation throughout the Empire should be. uniform, and should be imperial, not local; (subject, however, to the.bright ,of any, self-govern-ing colony to impose special conditions.'-."Dur-ing tho debate Mr. Gladstone hinted, that anyone naturalised aftor five years' residence in England .mightj'be "entitled to enter any por-' tion of the Empire.-• Sir :'.To6oph AVard-is reported as repl;ping:.that/ New Zealand would" not agree to any . Imperial, Act interfering with' the Dominion's 'power to prevent aliens, especially coloured ..aliens, entering. Now Zealand. Tho whole subject has a quickened in-1 torest' 111 view of recent events in the Transvaal, :'.' r - 1 i■ .