HINDUS' HARSH TREATMENT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13664, 1 April 1908, Page 15

HINDUS' HARSH TREATMENT.

EXCLUSION FROM CANADA.

Per Press, Association. „ AU,CKLAND, Mar^ch 31. , file& to. hand to-day state that ;during the past four months '<juite a number of Indians have left Fiji in the mail steatners for Canada. The voyage ;cost #iem : £32, this including a deposit lr.egu.ired by the Canadian Government .prior^to their adm^sipii to the Dom,in!ion.,, Now, , howevej^, a law has been passed prohibiting' them landing there, " and it has been made restrospective. Three Indians left Suva in the R.M.S. Aorangi in January last, but the law had been passed prior to their arrival, so they had to return in the steamer, paying their passages both ways. The other men who landed previously will also have to return at their own expense. • ' x - Mr T. Ling; a chief mandarin of the fiffh class, passed through Suva recently on 'his' way tt) Samoa, where he is to act as commissioner of Chinese*, immigrants. The object of this visit to the Pacific is entirely confined to the drawing -u.p of a report for- his Government as to the labour conditions of Chite.se-' opofies \i& Samoa;; ; *; |,