The Waihi Daily Telegraph. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1905

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1468, 28 October 1905, Page 2

The Waihi Daily Telegraph. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1905

hero shall tho r-ress tho Feoplo's Kiftlit maintain Uiißwed bj mfluonoo tail unbribod by I'^n; Horopatrtot Truth ka glomus pros'ipts diim Pledvod to Bolivian Llbort?, mil Law

IN the Honsß on Friday the Premier, in answer to a question, raid that up i to the present no intimation had been received that the Colonial Conference w&b to bo held next year. This in' dicates a fear in the Mother Countiy that the projected conference ia a scandalous attempt to use the colonial representatives for electioneering purposes. What seems to bother them ia the prophesy of Lord Ripon that "Mr Sedden will dance on the stomach of the Government on the subject ot Chinese labour." There seem to be a rooted feeling in England that Mr Seddon is preparing a torrent of anti-Chinese oratory for tho Conference. A while ago a cartoonist, Mr Oarruthera Gould, pictured Mr Balfour and Mr Seddon on the ends of a telephone. The latter was telling Mr Balfour that he was going to have " some free and unfettered talk" about the Chinese business at flint Conference, and the cartoonist may not be far out. We read of constant desertions by the Chineseon tho Rand, of constant raids on farmers by these slaves, of the constant killing of Chinamen by the colonists in defence of life and property, and of frequent murders by the coolies thomselyes, It started with the killing of a mine manager, and then the Kaffirs and coolies fought, and tho coolies were worsted • Then, Chinese deserters killed a far"< mer named Joubert, and then afarmeti killed several Chinamen. Perhaps"' tho deserting Chinamen were maddened with ill-treatment, and if so we cannot blame them aa much as we blame the men eaponsible. If there are no politicians in England or in Africa who have the courage to

' dauce on the stomach of the Govprmuutil," aud if Mr Seddoti is the only person the Cliinesa champions in Britain are fearful of, may he do something to justify their horror at the prospect of his going to England to have "some free and unfettered talk" on the subject. . Lord Miluer recently deprecated " New Zealand poking !u>r inquisitive 'nose." into P.owh African affairs; but Lord MiliuT did nor dfiprewie '«« action of this colony six years ago wlum New Zealand began to help in the conquest of a white race, believing that Africa was to become a while man's country. Nobody called it iiiqiiisiiiveness then, and many called if piiirimism, It was patriotism that stirred the Premier of New Zeala-jil to speak of (he burning shame of keeping white men out of Africa so that the magnates living in London might nse cheap labour. New Zealand helped to win the Rand mines for those men and others, and New Zealand's Premier has the right that every loyal Briton has to " jnm p on the Blomach" of a Government that continues to permit the Hand iniquity.