8. The two last preceding sections do not apply to an immigrant under a contract or agreement to serve as part of the crew of a vessel engaged in the coasting trade in Australian waters, if the rates of wages specified therein are not lower than the rates ruling in the Commonwealth.

9. Any employer who in the contract wilfully makes any untrue representation, by which the contract immigrant is misled to his detriment as to the wages, hours, or conditions of labour at the place where the contract is to be performed, shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.

Penalty: 201.

10.—(1.) The Governor-General may, by order published in the "Gazette," order that from and after a date therein specified, the immigration of contract immigrants intended to be brought to Australia for or in connection with or in contemplation of a dispute relating to industrial matters shall be prohibited subject to such exceptions and limitations as are expressed in the order.

(2.) From and after the date so specified, contract immigrants shall, subject to the said exceptions and limitations, be prohibited immigrants within the meaning of "The Immigration Restriction Act, 1901."

11. The Minister shall lay on the table of each House of the Parliament annually a printed return showing

(a.) The number of contract immigrants admitted into the Commonwealth, the nationality and occupation of such immigrants.

(b.) The number of employers engaging such contract immigrants and the number of such contract immigrants engaged by each employer.

(c.) The places at which the contract immigrants have agreed to work.

(d.) The number of contracts disapproved.

(e.) The number of contract immigrants refused admission and the reasons for such refusal.

12. Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to oust or abridge the jurisdiction or control of any Court or industrial tribunal or board of the Commonwealth or of a State in relation to the contract, the parties thereto, or the employment thereunder, or to restrict the application of any industrial law of the Commonwealth or of a State, or any award, order, or determination made under any such law.

13. This Act shall not be construed to apply to domestic servants or personal attendants accompanying their employer to Australia.

14. The Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters and things which by this Act are required or permitted to be prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for giving effect to this Act.

CANADIAN ORDER IN COUNCIL revoking the Order

in Council of January 13, 1908,* relating to Foreign Vessels and the Coasting Trade of Canada, and making New Provisions for the same.-Ottawa, December 17, 1908.

At the Government House at Ottawa, December 17, 1908.

PRESENT: HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council dated the 13th January, 1908, it is provided that certain Orders in Council by which ships and vessels of certain foreign countries had been admitted to the coasting trade of Canada are repealed, on, from, and after the 1st January, 1909.

And whereas applications have been made to allow the ships and vessels of certain foreign countries to participate in such coasting trade to a limited extent and for a temporary period, pending the acquisition of suitable British ships, to which class of vessels under the provisions of the Order the coasting trade would on and after the said date be confined.

Therefore his Excellency the Governor-General in Council is pleased to order that the said Order in Council of the 13th January, 1908, shall be and the same is hereby revoked and the following provisions substituted for the provisions therein contained :

All Orders in Council admitting ships or vessels of any foreign country to the coasting trade of Canada shall be and the same are hereby revoked, on, from, and after the 1st January, 1909, and thereafter such ships and vessels shall be subject to the provisions of sections 952 to 957 of the Canada Shipping Act, both inclusive;

Provided that steamships of not less than 1,500 tons gross tonnage each, of the following countries, namely, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Austria-Hungary, Denmark, Belgium, the Argentine Republic, and Japan shall be admitted to the coasting trade of Canada in the carrying of goods and passengers coastwise between any port in the Province of Nova Scotia and any port in the Province of Quebec, and vice versa, on the same terms and conditions as are applicable to Canadian vessels, until the 31st day of December, 1911.

F. K. BENNETTS,

Assistant Clerk of the Privy Council

* Vol. CI, page 156.

ANNOUNCEMENTS by and on behalf of His Majesty the King-Emperor at the Coronation Durbar held at Delhi on December 12, 1911, with Correspondence relating thereto.*

(No. 1.)-Announcement of His Majesty the King-Emperor.

It is with genuine feelings of thankfulness and satisfaction that I stand here to-day among you. This year has been to the Queen-Empress and myself one of many great ceremonies and of an unusual though happy burden of toil. But in spite of time and distance, the grateful recollections of our last visit to India have drawn us again to the land which we then learned to love, and we started with bright hopes on our long journey to revisit the country in which we had already met the kindness of a home.

In doing so I have fulfilled the wish expressed in my message of last July, to announce to you in person my Coronation, celebrated on the 22nd of June in Westminster Abbey, when by the Grace of God the Crown of my forefathers was placed on my head with solemn form and ancient ceremony.

By my presence with the Queen-Empress I am also anxious to show our affection for the loyal Princes and faithful peoples of India, and how dear to our hearts is the welfare and happiness of the Indian Empire.

It was, moreover, my desire that those who could not be present at the solemnity of the Coronation should have the opportunity of taking part in its commemoration at Delhi.

It is a sincere pleasure and gratification to myself and the Queen-Empress to behold this vast assemblage, and in it my Governors and trusty officials, my great Princes, the representatives of the peoples, and deputations from the military forces of my Indian dominions.

I shall receive in person with heartfelt satisfaction the homage and allegiance which they loyally desire to render.

I am deeply impressed with the thought that a spirit of sympathy and affectionate goodwill unites Princes and people with me on this historic occasion.

In token of these sentiments I have decided to commemorate the event of my Coronation by certain marks of my especial favour and consideration, and these I will later on to-day cause to be announced by my Governor-General to this assembly.

Finally I rejoice to have this opportunity of renewing in my own person those assurances which have been given you by my revered predecessors of the maintenance of your rights and privileges and of my earnest concern for your welfare, peace, and contentment.

May the Divine favour of Providence watch over my people

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and assist me in my utmost endeavour to promote their happiness and prosperity.

To all present, feudatories and subjects, I tender our loving greeting.

(No. 2.)—Announcements by the Governor-General of India on behalf of His Majesty the King-Emperor.

To all to whom these presents may come.

By the command of His Most Excellent Majesty George V, by the grace of God King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, I, his GovernorGeneral, do hereby declare and notify the grants, concessions, reliefs, and benefactions which His Imperial Majesty has been graciously pleased to bestow upon this glorious and memorable occasion.

Humbly and dutifully submissive to His Most Gracious Majesty's will and pleasure, the Government of India have resolved, with the approval of His Imperial Majesty's Secretary of State, to acknowledge the predominant claims of educational advancement on the resources of the Indian Empire, and have decided in recognition of a very commendable demand to set themselves to making education in India as accessible and wide as possible. With this purpose they propose to devote at once 50 lakhs to the promotion of truly popular education, and it is the firm intention of Government to add to the grant now announced further grants in future years on a generous scale.

Graciously recognising the signal and faithful services of his forces by land and sea, the King-Emperor has charged me to announce the award of half a month's pay of rank to all non-commissioned officers and men and reservists both of his British Army in India and his Indian Army, to the equivalent ranks of the Royal Indian Marine, and to all permanent employés of departmental or non-combatant establishments paid from the military estimates whose pay may not exceed the sum of 50 rupees monthly.

Furthermore, His Imperial Majesty has been graciously pleased to ordain that from henceforth the loyal native officers, men, and reservists of his Indian Army shall be eligible for the grant of the Victoria Cross for valour; that membership of the Order of British India shall be increased during the decade following this His Imperial Majesty's Coronation Durbar by 52 appointments in the first class, and by 100 appointments in the second class, and that in mark of these historic ceremonies 15 new appointments in the first class and 19 new appointments in the second class shall forthwith be made; that from henceforth Indian officers of the Frontier Militia Corps and the Military Police shall be deemed eligible for admission to the aforesaid Order; that special grants of land or assignments or remissions

of land revenue, as the case may be, shall now be conferred on certain native officers of His Imperial Majesty's Indian Army who may be distinguished for long and honourable service; and that the special allowances now assigned for three years only to the widows of the deceased members of the Indian Order of Merit shall, with effect from the date of this Durbar, hereafter be continued to all such widows until death or remarriage.

Graciously appreciating the devoted and successful labours of his civil services, His Imperial Majesty has commanded me to declare the grant of half a month's pay to all permanent servants in the civil employ of Government whose pay may not exceed the sum of 50 rupees monthly.

Further, it is His Imperial Majesty's gracious behest that all persons to whom may have been or hereafter may be granted the titles of Dewan Bahadur, Sirdar Bahadur, Khan Bahadur, Rai Bahadur, Rao Bahadur, Khan Sahib, Rai Sahib, or Rao Sahib, shall receive distinctive badges as a symbol of respect and honour; and that on all holders present or to come of the venerable titles of Malamahopadyaya and Shamsululama shall be conferred some annual pension for the good report of the ancient learning of India.

Moreover, in commemoration of this Durbar, and as a reward for conspicuous public service, certain grants of land, free of revenue, tenable for the life of the grantee, or in the discretion of the local administration for one further life, shall be bestowed or restored in the North-Western Frontier Province and in Baluchistan.

In his gracious solicitude for the welfare of his loyal Indian Princes, His Imperial Majesty has commanded me to proclaim that from henceforth no Nazarana payments shall be made upon succession to their States. And sundry debts, owing to the Government by the non-jurisdictional estates in Kathiawar and Gujerat, and also by the Bhumia chiefs of Mewar, will be cancelled and remitted in whole or in part under the orders of the Government of India.

In token of his appreciation of the Imperial Service Troops, certain supernumerary appointments in the Order of British India will be made.

In the exercise of His Royal and Imperial clemency and compassion, His Most Excellent Majesty has been graciously pleased to ordain that certain prisoners now suffering the penalty of the law for crimes and misdemeanours, shall be released from imprisonment, and that all those civil debtors now in prison whose debts may be small, and due not to fraud, but to real poverty, shall be discharged, and that their debts shall be paid.

The persons by whom and the terms and conditions on which these grants, concessions, reliefs, and benefactions shall be enjoyed will be hereafter declared.

God Save the King!