COLOURED LABOUR IN QUEENSLAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8881, 18 May 1892, Page 5

COLOURED LABOUR IN QUEENSLAND.

Prets Association.—Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.

London, May 16. Sir J. F. Gaeeick, Agent-General for Queensland, in a letter to the Times, states that the people of England may rest assured that the colonial Government will fearlessly and rigidly enforce the revised rules regarding the employment of Kanaka labour, and that the new safeguards will render recruiting a3 free of evil as the importation of Coolies.

The Times, commenting on the letter, believes there is no possibility of a repetition of the Hopeful blackbirding case, yet Queensland has incurred a very grave responsibility, and is bound to fulfil its promises as to safeguards against a repetition of the former abuses.

The Pall Mall Gazette, in arguing that England should not meddle with Queensland and the employment of coloured labour, quotes some remarks made by Lord Carrington recently on the subject. In the House of Commons, Baron De Worms told Mr. J. A. Picton, member for Leicester, that the Government declined to take the extreme course, and disallow the Kanaka Act passed by the Queensland Government, but had agreed to cable to Queensland, asking for the full terms of the stringent regulations contained in the Act. London, May 17. The Morning Post says that it cannot concede that an insult has been offered to Queensland by the way in which the Imperial Government have treated the coloured labour question.