London vit Bombay, Feb. 1.
Dispatches from Ottawa state that, speaking in the Dominion House of Commons, the Premier, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, said that he favoured the abolition of the head-tax of five hundred dollars on UN
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Chinese immigrants and the substitution in its place of an arrangement with China similar to that with Japan, for the restriction of immigration. The Premier added that, notwithstanding the tax, 1500 Chinese had entered Canada, while on the other hand the agreement with Japan had worked admirably.—Reuter.
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