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' BRITISH. COLUMBIA. LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR RETIRES. BY TELEGnAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHI. i London, March 17. ; :• Owing'to -insults by Labourites to', tho Hon. James Dunsmuir, Lieut.-Govomor of British Columbia,-as tho result of his attitude 'to» wards tho Japanese, he is retiring. after -selling'.his mining properties to"an. English ■syndicato' for. three million sterling..., ,
... ! In iits,session last: year the British Columbia Legislature passed a.Japanese Exclusion' Bill; but' tho Royal Assent was withheld by-"-tho 'Hon. l : James -Dunsmuir (Lieutenant-Governor), :in "View of the- treaty, .with Japan, which gives ~the: subject's) of either-'cOuntry, the-right to 'enter,'' -travel,'^and' reside':in-' any part of the .domjni V ns O M, S??r tractinpr party.' For this action .the mob, in September last;',burned .the" Lieutenant-Gover-nor in- ofligy at- tho conchißion of r.their (parade. •Tiie Hqn. Jas.-Dunsmuir became LieutenantGovernor. in lOftG., _H6;;was .formerly; Preiniet '6l' British'' Coluiribia', 'and ' President •_ of 'the -Executive'! Council., 'He o.\niß ! . : 4.0i000 acres, in British Columbia, and .lie sold to the Canadian Pacific ,'Eailway "Co. the ; Bsouiihault' and Nanimo' Railway, with" 1J 'million - acres" of land. ■: -V
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 150, 19 March 1908, Page 7
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170THE COLOUR ISSUE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 150, 19 March 1908, Page 7
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