THE CHINESE IMMIGRATION QUESTION.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2732, 18 November 1871, Page 2

THE CHINESE IMMIGRATION QUESTION.

To the Editor. Sir, — This momentous subject has numberless times provoked a large amount of discussion amongst the savans of this philomathical City, who have treated the matter in a masterly style, indicating the urgent necessity of introducing a poll-tax to counteract the present and future influx of Chinese immigrants to these shores. After audi alteram partem, probably the Government will forthwith conclude what course they intend pursuing in the matter. Bit ere they proceed to arrive at a decision, I think it meet to instruct them in certain veritable facts calculated to augment their knowledge of dealing with the Chinese immigration question. It is not generally known that the European operative clais cease to exist in the Celestial Empire. The manual work performed in Hong Kong (a British possession) was always, and ever will be, done by Chinese aud Coolies, and hence the workingclass (European) should never attempt to visit the Flowery Land in quest of work, since their prospects would be the reverse of encouraging. None but the opulent and influential can ever expect to thrive in China. All this I have ascertained by experience and t : me, after a protracted sojourn in the Celestial Empire. Therefore the Chinese have consequently an advantage over their European working-class neighbors which everybody is not aware of, aud which should command the prompt and careful attention of the Government whilst engaging their consideration with the Chinese immigration question, whereon depends the weal or woe of the miners of New Zealand, whose honest and just cause I now advocate, fully relying upon those sterling qualities which have ever distinguished the British Parliament in meting out justice to whom justice is due. Yours, &c,, Marcus Honioin. Dunedin, November 18.