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ASIATIC IMMIGRATION.

CORRESPONDENCE

RELATIVE TO THE

IMMIGRATION OF ASIATICS INTO

THE COLONIES.

1903.

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Governor

Sir H.

New

Rawson.

South

December 20, 1902,

Wales,

143,

(Rec. Jan. 26, 1903.)

Forwards a copy of the Chinese Restric- tion and Regulation Act, 1888, which is the only Act bearing on the sub- ject.

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Governor General Australia,

Lord Tennyson.

218.

December 22, 1902, (Rec. Jan. 26, 1903.)

Commonwealth Laws Indicates the

dealing with Asiatics; the Immigra tion Restriction Act of the Common- wealth is administered in priority to the Acts of the Australian States.

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10

Governor Sir H.

Chermside.

Queens- land,

98.

December 22, 1902, (Rec. Feb. 9, 1903.)

Transmits copies of the Acts dealing with the subject; points out that Japanese are not specially referred to in them.

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Governor Bir G. 8. Victoria,

Clarke.

1.

January 2 (Rec. Feb. 9.)

Transmits copies of Acts affecting Asiatics; Japanese are not treated differently from other aliens.

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To Foreign Office... Victoria, February 24

Queens- land.

Transmits copies of Nos. 10 and 11; observes that in each of these States the Commonwealth Acts are also in force.

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SIR,

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Acting Governor Sir

E. A. Stone.

Western

January 27 Australia, (Rec. Mar. 2.)

2.

Tranamita copies of the Acts in force in

Western Australia.

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14

Governor Sir W. F.

Hely-Hutchinson.

Cape,

32.

February 5 (Rec. Mar. 2.)

Transmits minute from Ministers with a

report by Mr. Advocate Evans.

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Acting Governor Sir Western

E. A. Stone.

February 12 Australia, Rec. Mar. 19.)

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States that, in addition to the Acts re- ferred to in No. 13, the Commonwealth Att 1 Edward VII, 17, ls the law in force.

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No. 1.

FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received October 2, 1902.)

[Answered by Nos. 2, 5, 16, and L.F. on No. 6.]

Foreign Office, September 30, 1902.

I AM directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne to inform you that a note, copy of which is enclosed, has been received from the French Ambassador, stating that the French Government desire to know what laws or regulations are applicable in Australia, South Africa and Hong Kong, to immigrants of Asiatic race, both on arrival and during their sojourn in those countries.

They are also desirous of knowing whether Japanese subjects are classed with other Asiatics in this respect or whether no difference is made between them and white immigrants.

I am to enquire what answer the Secretary of State for the Colonies would wish returned to Monsieur Cambon's enquiry.

I am, &c.,

T. H. SANDERSON.

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Enclosure in No. 1.

M. CAMBON to the MARQUESS OF Lansdowne.

MONSIEUR LE Marquis,

Londres, le 24 Septembre, 1902. MON Gouvernement serait désireux d'avoir connaissance des lois ou règlements qui sont applicables dans l'Inde Anglaise, en Australie, dans l'Afrique du Sud, à Hong Kong et à Aden aux immigrants de race Asiatique soit au moment de leur arrivée soit pendant leur séjour dans ces Colonies. Il aurait particulièrement intérêt à savoir si les sujets Japonais sont à ce point de vue assimilés aux autres Asiatiques ou si au contraire aucune différence n'est faite entre eux et les étrangers de race blanche, et si une suite a été donnée par le Gouvernement de Sa Majesté aux stipulations de l'article XIX. du Traité du 16 Juillet, 1894, entre la Grande Bretagne et le Japon.

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