IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12935, 30 March 1904, Page 5

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

11 ' 11 ■ j ; chixkse foii the ium |- Press Association—By Telegrap.li--.Copy.nght. LONDON", .March 29. .('Rec.ei.veil March 29, at 10.30 p.ja.) In tho House of C'cmr,lolls Mr. M'Neill askerl wliethor provision wasinade ill the iraiisvaal labour contracts enabling' indentured Chinese to cdle!;r.ate thoii' rites and at whoso expsiise idols ■ were provided. The Hon. A. Lyi tcHon,: ■Cploiiial Secretary,, promised'that if Mr : Jf'Neill was interested in Chihe.se ritual' ho would obtain tlio information, but Mr M'Neill anight safely leave such rites ■ to. tile Chinese administration. He said ■ 110 arriiiigemgnt had been inade for payment for riiiml. AK.MY P.EFOItM. Mr Arnold Forster, replying, to Mr .larahert, said, tlio military expcrienco of ' Lord Eslicr's cdmmitteo was confined to .-the military member thereof, THE GOV EK .VI )I{-G KN EI!A LOF AI'STKAJjIA. . T.lie Hon. A. Lytteltoh iiifcrmcd Mr G, Witsu.n that Ijord Nort'i-cote had notlieen instructed to advocate preferential ■ trailu in the Australian Comniomvc-aith, THE SOMALILAND CAMPAIGN, (Received March 30, at 0.48 a.111.) Colonel Swayne lias been summoned from Somaliland to England to advise Lord Lnnsd'dwne, Foreign Secretary.