TRANSVAAL AND BRITISH INDIANS

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11863, 18 February 1907, Page 3

TRANSVAAL AND BRITISH INDIANS

Received Feb 17, 5.20 pm . .... London, Feb 16 Lord Elgin is "in foarmony with the deputation of Brltishlndians frofti the Transvaal that waited upon him, and has disallowed the Transvaal Legisilatur&'s Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance providing for the registration of all Asiatics and the expulsion of those who are unable to prove they are lawfully resident in the Colony ; Lord Selborne favoured the Ordinance but Lord Elgin, while sanctioning the Vrededorp Stands Ordinance disagrees with the proposed restriction preventing Indians holding land The Westminster Gazette sfiya that Lord Elgin's decision regarding registration will tend to educate the Transvaal to a fuller sense of its i part in a great Empire of many races