Chinese Labour in the Transvaal.

The Premier reiterated his protest against the introduction of Chinese labour into South Africa. During the coming session, he said, Parliament would be asked to express its opinion on the question, and the answer of Parliament would not be uncertain, "We will tell the British Government," said the Premier, "and the Government of the Transvaal, that that which they are doing is against the best interest of our Empire, and shocking to the feelings of the people of New Zealand." (Applause.) He read this the other day:—"London, June 22,—Sir C. N. E. Eliot, Commissioner, and Commander-in-Chief for the British East Africa Protectorate, has resigned his position. He has appealed to Mr Balfour, Prime Minister, to inquire into the circumstances of his resignation, He declares that the Marquis of Lans downe, Foreign Secretary of State, prohibited grants of lands to individuals, while ordering him to give a monopoly of enormous tracts on unduly advantageous terms to a Jewish East African syndicate. Sir Charles Eliot considers the proposal was unjust and impolitic." And, he asked, where was the Government of this great British Empire for the moment? Was it to be that syndicates, or that powerful financial institutions or individuals were to govern and control where life and liberty were at stake? No, he had great faith in his kindred, and only for a time such a condition of things might obtain, but the day of reckoning was not far off. And where a worthy public servant resigned his position because he was ordered to give concessions to a rich syndicate and deprive the people of their just rights, he said all glory be to him. Public attention had been called to it, and if the facts were as stated, then it was a bad day for the Empire wherever there was a Government which legislated and administered in the interests of the selfish millionaire. (Applause.)