BRITISH COLUMBIA AND ASIATICS. A FULL COURT DECISION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 49, 27 February 1908, Page 7

BRITISH COLUMBIA AND ASIATICS. A FULL COURT DECISION.

By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. OTTAWA, 26th Febniary. The Full Court of British^ Columbia, has upheld the decision given by Chief Justice Hunter to tho effect that the Act recently passed by the Assembly to restrict immigration was inoperative as regards Japanese, since it was contrary to the terms of the Anglo-Japan-ese treaty. A JUDGE'S CONDEMNATION. Received February 27, 9 a.m.) OTTAWA, 26th February. One of the judges of the Full Court strongiy condemned the disloyalty of tho piovincial Parliament in trying to override the Dominion's Act embodying treaty engagements. It is probable that the Privy Council will now he appealed to.

To-day there is a good ship still able to gladly spread white wings to the breeze, but this freedom of the sea was nearly taken from her by forest fires near "Otaki recently. The flames did not roach out across the water, but the smoke did, and the coast was blurred. When the Queen of the South was steaming towards Foxtail the captain noticed tho ship heading gaily for the shore. The mariners apparently thought that the immensity of ocean stretched far away behind the curtain that waa ahead ox thorn. The prow was pointed for the shore off Otaki, and the ignorant, whose bliss threatened to be soon shattered, were only about threo miles away from the land. The steamer's captain spoke to the ship, and it took very few words fiom him to alter tho course which lliu sailer was so serenely ftecrini;. She went, about very biiskly, and vas soon on (lie riyhl track. An nurtiou tale of unolninmd tlog? will ba held in tho corporation yardi, Cljdaauaj, At 3 o'clock 04 Saturday.