WELLINGTON NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 260, 7 November 1906, Page 5

WELLINGTON NEWS.

INFLUENZA IN HIGH PLACES. (By Telegraph.—Own.' Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The friends of Mr Justice Edwards will be pleased to learn that his medical adviser, Dr Mackin, reports a satisfactory improvement in his condition this afternoon. The Hon. J. Carroll, whose health of late has been giving rise to considerable uneasiness among his friends owing to pneumonia developing upon an attack of influenza, is now making excellent progress towards recovery. The Hon. Hall-Jones, who . has been prevented from carrying out his Ministerial duties as the result of a severe bout of influenza, expects to be able to attend to. Departmental matters in the course of a day or two. Mr T. H. Hamer, under-secretary of mines, has been compelled to take to his bed, the prevailing epidemic finding a weak spot in his constitution. * THE YELLOW PERIL. A private letter received in Wellington this week from an ex-New Zealander now a, resident in China conveys the somewhat startling information that the Chinese Government will in the not distant future insist upon the British Government removing the present obstacles to the free admission of its countrymen within the British Dominions. The Chinese officials in authority make no secret of their determination to push all the white races out of the Empire if the restrictions are not removed. They are said to ha-ve Japan at the back of them in this matter, though the Mikado's advisers arc cunningly continuing to veil their movements in secrecy. The writer says that the fusion of the Chinese and Japanese forces is a grave menace to Australasia, aud he has it on the authority of a mandarin of the highest rank, who is intimately connected with the Chinese Court, that i? is only a question of time when the Western nations will have to acknowledge tUe supremacy of their Eastern : rivals. The mandarin said the Chinese a.rmy would then be in a position to i show the world that it could bear comparison with the best-drilled forces of .Europe. - ■ ■- ■