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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4459, 5 July 1875, Page 3

The Queensland people Lave no reason to Le apprehensive that the immense influx of Chinese to tha Palmer diggings will interfere with European interests, for according to latest advices the matter appears to stand thus : that if the immigrants from the Flowery Land are not permitted to settle there, the diggings will soon be of no value to the colony. A private letter received by a gentleman of this city from a friend in one of the New South Wales ports, has the following- interesting passage :—“The enormojis yields at the Palmer diggings drew very many miners from New South Wales, but now the Chinese are arriving there in thousands. We hear‘of. thirty thousand being on their way. ■ Twelve thousand ounces of gold per week will draw half China, and Chinamen with capital are now investing largely in town (Cooktown) property, and buying it of European bred men at enormous prices. Their undertakings surprise all, but yet they make them pay. The white people cannot stand the climate there; it seems impossible for them to work in the sun. Several men from this port (Oarcoai) have gone, but have got back again 'after enduring grant hardship, and will never face the diggings again.