THE ANTI-ASIATIC FEELING.

Otago Witness, Issue 2809, 15 January 1908, Page 19

THE ANTI- ASIATIC FEELING.

c «*. 1 INDIANS IN THE TBANSVAAL. \ CAPETOWN, January 9. The Trades and Labour Council at 3 Johannesburg uanimously urge the enforcement of the Asiatics Begistration Act in | its entirety. „ PRETORIA, January 9. j Mr Gandhi undertakes, if the element of compulsion is eliminated from the regis- , i tration system, that within a month every Indian in the Transvaal will be registered l in accordance with a form to be. mutually . agreed upon. "*-% [ j January 11. > Seven Indians were sentenced at Pre- , i toria to three months' imprisonment for • disobeying the magistrate's order to quit the Transvaal. The defendants, in addition, were fined £100 each. Three others were ordered to pay £50, failing payment of which each would be ' imprisoned for a further three months. ' Four of these had had large local business 1 connections. Mr Gandhi and five other Indians were ' eentenced to two months' imprisonment ' ', without hard labour for having defied the ] law. j At the close of the court proceedings ] a procession of Indians marched the streets of Johannesburg carrying black flags. i • January 13. Mr Botha has transformed the sentences on the Indians from hard labour into simple imprisonment. DURBAN, January 8. The Natal Mercury urges the Transvaa.l to postpone the Asiatic question pending the Pretoria conference, at which, the statesmen <*f 'the whole of South Africa may devise a solution. CANADA'S IMMIGRATION. SAN FRANCISCO, January 6. One hundred and fifty Japanese leave Honolulu for Vancouver this week. The steerage accommodation on the CanadianAustralian liners is booked six months ahead by Japanese from Honolulu. Fifty are leaving by each ship. OTTAWA, January 11. Advices from Victoria (British Columbia) state that new regulations have been iesued providing that immigrants to Canada must book through passages from, the land of their birth or of their citizenship. The regulations, which become operative immediately, will stop the influx of Japanese via Hawaii and of Hindus via . Hongkong.