INTERCOLONIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 18, 21 January 1881, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL.

SfDNEV, Thursday. The Intercolonial C3nference met again to-day, the Hon Thomas Dick being present as the representative of New Zealand. The question of the influx of Chinese was under consideration the greater part of the sitting, and a resolution was finally passed setting forth that the introduction of Chinese at the public expense to in one colony was prejudicial to all the colonies. A Committee was further appointed to prepare a memorial to the Home Government on the subject. ; The steamship Collaroy> belonging to the Newcastle Steamship Company, a regular trader between Newcastle and Sydney, has run ashore to the northward of Manly Beach on .the coast near Sydney. It is expected she will get off again soon. Sailed — Rotorua for Aucklaud. Later. ; The memorial to the Home Government, which is to be prepared by the Special Committee appointed at to-day's sitting of the Intercolonial Conference, will make representations in favor of the reversal of the action of the Government in' Western Australia in originating a scheme for Chinese immigration, and the resolution passed by the Conference that the introduction of Chinese at the public expense into one colony is prejudicial to all the colonies has special reference to the Western Australian scheme as recently gaaetted.