THE COOLIE ORDINANCE.
" TEMPORARY RENEWAL." ' V by telegraph—toess assooiation—copyright. • London, April 14. A Bluo-book shows that after vainly urging that Chineso offenders should be triod by the. same, methods as natives,, Lord Elgin (then Secretary.of State for tho Colonies), in November, assented to an Act' for tho temporary renewal of the indentured labour laws, relying' upon tilio Transvaal to rcmovo everything objectionable in practice' as soon as it could. • It is said that, on looking through a Blue book, Mr. Alfred-: Lytteltpn;(Secrotary' for the Colonies in Mr. Balfour's ' Government) tflls- ' covered that the Chinese labour ' ordihanco for. which-' hi 3' Government had been so much denounced by the. Liberals. had: been re-enacted last December by the Liberal Government. On bringing the . matter' up in 'Mr.. Lyttelton said that for, four years, from-ten thousand' platforms, the Liborals had.held up to. execration and scorn tho ordinance, every line ofi.which; they'had now : re'-ona'cted behind tbo back of. Parliament. -The .'Government's dpfeuce was, in effect—as indicated in tho abovo cablegram—a desire to mako . things .easy for. the Transvaal Government, whose administrative discretion is relied on:
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 174, 16 April 1908, Page 7
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