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September I, 190S'. 



of their o\vn children, nor may thej- earn anything 

 without the consent of their husbands, nor have 

 girls any of the facilities for higher education that 

 are freely given by the Go\emment to boys." So it 

 is stated. 



jhe Much irritation exists in the 



Chinese Question Liberal ranks at the way in which 



in the promise made to the House of 



South Africa. Commons as to the repatriation of 



the Chinese has been rendered null and void bv 



passage tiome at once there was a portentots 



*™.Ount of rigmarole ending with this extraordinarj' 



sentence : — ■ 



Those who really wish to return home, but who find 

 themselves unable to do so on account of their insulEcient 

 possession of money, will now be allowed to send an ap- 

 plication. The superintendent, then, after thorough inves- 

 tigation of the applicant's circumstances, will, after the 

 Government's approval, decide the case, and if it does so 

 favourably, he will give the whole sum of travelling ex- 

 pense, according to the contract. If the statement be con- 

 sidered worthy of belief, then the application will be 

 granted, after which the applicants still would have to 

 work in the mines, and the money thna saved would be- 

 added to the sum of returning faree. 



SUreograph Cops/right.} [Underwood and Undencood, London, ;\>ir Tori and Slelbourns. 



The International Women's Council in Paris, with Lady Aberdeen enthroned as Presioer.t. 



the terms ot the proclamation in which this decision 

 has been made known to the Chinese. Rightly or 

 wrongly, the Government promised, and the House 

 accepted their promise in all good faith, that any 

 Chinese labourer who was dissatisfied at the condi- 

 tions of his labour in the mines should be sent 

 home at our expense. Instead of making this 

 known to the Chinese in the compounds, a long and 

 ambiguous proclamation was issued, in which in- 

 stead of a plain unambiguous promise of a free 



The net effect of this is to nullify the Ministerial 

 promise. It may rwt have been wise to promise to 

 send the coolies back. But the promise was giveri, 

 and it ought to have been kept. There is nothing 

 the House of Commons resents more bitterly than, 

 being jockeyed. It will go hard with Lord Sel- 

 bourne if he cannot produce some satisfacton" ex- 

 planation of how he dared to keep the word of 

 promise to the ear and 'break it to the hope. 



