ALIEN LAW TANGLE.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13384, 6 April 1912, Page 6

ALIEN LAW TANGLE.

WOMAN'S TRYING PREDICAMFAT

[United Press Association.]

Palmerston North, April 5

There has boon in Palmerston for the last, three' weeks Mrs. Eliott, widow of an Englishman, daughter of a Scotch father (granddaughter of a Scotchman) and a Eurasian mother. Her father is a tea planter in Ceylon, as arc her brothers. Mrs. Eliott herself lias two children in Ceylon. She came with Mrs Geo. • Stockwell, of Palmerston, to nurse hor grandchild who was ordered from Ceylon as it was dying of dysentry and malaria, and brought the child over to Now Zealand. The party came from Ceylon by the Orient line. No dim"--, culty was anticipated on leaving Ceyloi'i as to her being able to return, thero. At "Fremanife the difficulties began, and under the alien lav,- a bond for £100 was signed. From Sydney she j desired to return to her home* but tho shipping authorities would not permit it on the grounds that the undertaking was that she should come on to. NewZeal and1, and that this, engagement must be fulfilled. She-crune hare duly, but when it is proposed that -sho should returnttoh o Oricmt Company communicated through tho Un:u:i Steamship Company that it ertnr.o'c. under the alien law, take her ba<:k, and. tluvofore the Union Company cannot tak^her to Sydney. The next effect in that a British subject, and tho wife and daughter of Englishmen, a graiHl-dai.i;.:htsr of a Scotchman through threo gen Orations is blocked from going out of tho country because some one holds that .'•:.!;:• should not have corao into it. Mr1?.. Klictt is greatly concerned at the r,ilu:vtic;-ii, to which the Australian arrsnsjeriH-nt;'. as interpreted by the Sydney fi ffi<-^ of the Orient Company, have brought her. Thor<> is no difficulty on tho Ncm' Zealand side, as tho Union Ccmpanv, if assured that it will be all right on the Sydney side, will take Mr:-.'.' Kliott to th.-sit port.