CHINESE AS COLONISTS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 158, 15 March 1872, Page 3

CHINESE AS COLONISTS.

-Iri -the later news from. America,!; via Sydney, it is mentioned that there-had been a 1 < ollision between the Caueiausiau and Mongolian miners, and that in retaliation for the de ithof a/few'of the former, seventeen .n£ the latter had been handed. The pal.'-faces were -killedin a/tights but, the tawny children, of, the sun and moon were deliberately and decently : do Tie for, haying been tried by a ; court.presided At; least,,;so.'. we-.,infer;". frptn the.- curt telegrams in which the execution of', and its .fatal regarded < as the result -of ;.an.-agitation against- Chinese labor, which was set on foot in America some twelve months since, The feeling .of- .hostility to, the Chinese on the Californian-- goldfields, from which the movement originated, was at the time latent in , X ewJZea'laud; but a. ilittle later it;•; manifested itself strongly in that-Colony. At a subsequent period'the House <>f Kepresenta-. fives was moved ttvvmterfere/in the matter, .and. it appointed' aJspeciajT com-. ;mittee to r bring .up a.- itpmQti This report; i* very tavoi-abie/to-the Asiatics. It might* be-' summed up-by saying that they are harmless and inoffensive. They are said to' be an industrious, frugal, useful, and law-abiding people, from whom Europeans need not fear contamination either in a moral physical sense. . The return is a vindication so far as it goes, but it leaves some questions untouched, -ana/these .ar&jiut. strange,. even unaccountable, that in the Kew, Zealand : there is nq reference whatever to such practices as' ; the Chinese are charged with at B alarafc/ r Creek,.and other placesi where they are corigregated in considerable, iiumbers. Are 'the.. GjiineW in New Zealand'better, than their countrymen in Victoria, or in the former Colony are the public. more, or tfye police 'less"" yient £., pThese are Questions of some jm portance, but: others more impprtaut still .occur to, W The (Chinese .contribute, little or nothing to. .the 'revenue; they dpi little for ihWpublie chiarities ; being unconcerned in ; movements for ;tHe, public good; '[ theytake; popart; in them.; thf great majority,pf them..spend' not, a penny .that"fa' the purchase.pf. existence ;,.they embark in no large undertaking requiring an investment of capital •. they- hoard the fruits pf their labor ; jpr expenditure ' own country ;. they drain ,'tjie ..colony by every mean's.in...their' power and do nothing for its benefit tp ; which they are not force*); though living amongst us they are not of us, and so much do they dislike usthat they will t npt leave us eyen their, bones. '. We do not belieye . that their presence is not injurious in a . moral sense ; we are convinced thai; f th,ese people ; add' to the public expenditure of the police, law, and sanitory departments, ai;d such sm?lL services, as they ..render to the community are far from being lent to the expenses and risks to which their presence subjects it. The true po'iey is to suffer those who are already, here.to remain unmolested, and to disV courage others from coming after them.—'Adyocate.'

Very . Untstjal.—ln one of the country districts "out west." in the* Nelson.Province, a ni;m waa chargecl with a petty theft; hut when the constable came to be sworn, it was disco vi-ivfl that there was no Hih e, nnd asearch 61' two hour? in t;he proveH of no.avail in .procuring one. As a wajy out of the difficulty the culprit had to be dismissed. The district should be rnarked out as a suitable field for the labors of a linssionary . !/'.'"'"' When does a mau feel girlish ? "When he makes his maiden speech.