"WHITE AUSTRALIA."

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5729, 26 October 1905, Page 5

"WHITE AUSTRALIA."

IMPERIAL UNITY INVOLVED. COMPROMISE NECESSARY'. THE COLONIAL SENTIMENT. LONDON, October 24. “The Times,” in an article on the question of immigration restriction, says:—“A special provision, would meet the special case of the importation of blacklegs during a strike, but it is certain that an absolute laissez faire policy as regards coloured people would make Australia tho homo of a preponderatingly yellow and brown population. The existence of our race demands restriction and regulation, which ought to be as little invidious as possible. “Tho Timers” agrees with Mr Deakin, tho Federal Premier, that there is room for a restatement of tho case, and adds; —“Tho growth of Imperial unity must be based on a compromise, and not a verbal subterfuge. The Motherland must realise tho nature of Australia’s problems, and modify her preconceived theories to suit them. Australia, in the interests of the Empire and her own progress, must learn to separate what is essential to tho development of a white race and tho maintenance of a standard of living from what is not essential, and to retain the former.”

THE JAPANESE. MILLIONS TO BE ABSORBED IN MANCHURIA. FEELING TOWARDS AUSTRALIA. (Received October 26, 1.8 a.m.) LONDON, October 25. Count Hayashi, Japanese Ambassador in London, in tho course of an interview, said Manchuria and Korea would absorb from five to ten millions moro people than Japan was at present able to spare. “Australia,” added tho Count, “has never been in danger of an influx of Japanese immigrants. Official circles in Japan recognise that tho attitude taken up by Australia is the result of labour agitation. But the unofficial opinion, based on conditions which appear on the surface, is that the generality of tli© people of Japan, who do not go deeply into the matter, believe that their feelings had been intentionally wounded by those responsible for tho government of Australia.”