ANTI-ALIENISM IN EXCELSIS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13234, 20 July 1906, Page 4

ANTI-ALIENISM IN EXCELSIS.

An ancient rhyme declares one jolly Englishman to'be. the equal of three united and combined Portuguese. In the Transvaal the officials seem to hold the view that one Portuguese counts for considerably more than a British:' subject. Mr. Manga, the son of a well-known Indian merchant at Delagoa Bay. recently returned from his legal studies in Englandhe is a. member of the Middle Templeand desiring to visit his parents at Delagoa, he applied for a permit enabling him to pass through the Transvaal on his way thither. It was refused. He applied again, this time to the Colonial Secretary, only to receive a second refusal. Then he went to Delagoa by steamer, but, being still desirous of seeing the Transvaal, he asked a third time for a permit, this time approaching the Protector of Asiatics. For the third time he met with a refusal. Then it appears to have occurred to him that he was by birth a native of the Portuguese territory in India. Taking advantage of this circumstance, he appealed to the Portuguese Government to obtain a permit for him as a subject of Portugal. Application was made, and the Portuguese subject ship acted as an open sesame at once. He. was admitted to the Transvaal, and when the mail left, the British Empire was still intact.