AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2260, 30 June 1881, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

[By Tblbgbaph.] [Per s.s. Rotomahana at Auckland.) MELBOURNE, June 21, A special train starts to-day for Hamilton to convey the Princes to Melbourne. The Admiral and officers of the squadron have accepted invitations to be present at the Liedertafel concert in the Exhibition, on July 4th. The Commissioner of Customs has had several representations made to him by leading tea merchants with regard to the proposed enforcement of the quarantine laws on all vessels arriving from Sydney. It was pointed out that at that port only restrictions were placed on vessels carrying Chinese, while here ships, whether carrying passengers or not, were quarantined. This would bo a serious drawback to trade, and would give Sydney importers an advantage. The Commissioner promised to recommend to his colleagues that steamers be examined at the heads, and admitted if everything is found right, and provided they carried no passongers. SYDNEY, June 21. The effect of the smallpox upon the efforts made to Christianise the Chinese in Sydney, was referred to by the Rev. Archdeacon King at the Synod yesterday. Mr King eaid that the ruffianism which had lately developed, not only among larrikins but among other classes, was degrading the Chinese. They were daily met in the streets with oaths and curses, turned out of steamboats and omnibusses, pushed into gutters, and ejected with indignity from the tram cars. May, the Chinese catechist, had sixty-five countrymen at his Sunday services, but last Sunday the attendance had fallen to twenty. He said that he believed it would take ten years to regain the influence which the church had loot in Christianising the Chinese residents of the colony. The Doan stated that he had received a message from the Chinese catechist to the effect that many Chinese were anxious that he should tell the congregation that they were wrong in treating the Chinese in the way they were doing. The Temora road is in a deplorable state, loaded woggons being bogged up to the bed. The escort left yesterday with three thousand oKnoes. At Grafton, owing to the about the small-pox, scarcely any person will purchase vegetables from the Chinese.