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Kumara Times, Issue 1133, 17 May 1880, Page 4

The influx of Chinese into the gold and tin mining district of Tasmania is exciting alarm, and it has been suggested that restrictive measures should be adopted, There are from 2000 to 3000 Celestials scattered over the mines, and in some instances European miners have been discharged in order to make room for them. One case is mentioned in which a company have let their mine »n tribute to a party of 70 Chinese, and the 40 Europeans previous y employed have had to elsewhere. Writing to one of the papers on the subject, a correspondent says that if something is not done at once, Tasmanians will “in a few years find to their sorrow that their little island is full of pip tails and half •castes.” By command of Her Majesty the Qneen, a stone cross has been erected on the spot where the Prince Imperial of France lost his life. The cross bears the following inscription:—“This cross is erected by Queen Victoria, in affectionate remembrance of Prince Napoleon ngene Louis Joseph, Prince Imperial, to mark the spot where, while assisting in a reconnaissance with the British troops, on the Ist June, 1879, he was attacked by a party of Zulus, and fell with his face to the foe.” / The Eev. John Hobbs, of Naseby, Otago, baa a tenderness of a peculiar kind for hot-oroas-buns. The local paper, the Mount Ida Chronicle, says s— “ Hot-cross-buns” are three words which one would think would hardly make a good subj-cfc for a sermon. Ye* !he Rev. John Bobbs make them the con c r state of his sermon hat Sunday. The rev enthman waxed very warm in his discern and said that the practice was a “most horrible one”—“ it was an insult to Almighty God. The idei of a person irreligiously eating a lot of buns with a cross on them made him almost shudder.”