AUSTRALIA AND SOUTH AFRICA.
I THE CHINESE LABOUR QUESTION.
THE SENTENCE ON LIEUT, WITTON. (Rec. 9.54 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. In the Federal Senate, on the motion by Sir Thomas Playfprd, the word 9 '* emphatically protest" were replaced by the words "re-. cords its grave objection tp " in Mr McGregor's motion protesting against; Chinese labour in the Transvaal. Sir Thomas Playford •declared th&t the Australians livAe thought that when they sent their I sons to fight for the liberation of I the, Uitlatnderstfit would be followed J by the introduction of the yellow, man. The ciiy for the introduction of the Ghin«*sfc w-as a subterfuge, -amd ih had: been heard before in "South Australia and Queen-aland. The motion as junoivled was carried. * Mr Deajlrin, F\deral Premier, has sent af despatch -Ax> me Imperial authori-l;iefs aJ urgmg that leniency be ehown to Lieutenant Wition. of the ■kNjahveKit .* Carabineers, on the j gro^inda that already circumstances bad OxP-a*--^ n 's -offence.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 59, 17 March 1904, Page 3
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