A special Parliamentary Committee at Ottawa is about to inquire into the subject cf Chinese immigration into the Dominion. A petition from British Columbia states that out of the total population of that province, 25,000, exclusive of Indians, one-fourth are Chinese ; there being 3000 domestic servants, 1000 gold miners, 500 gardeners, 300 laborers, 150 shoemakers, 100 tailors, 100 employed in the fisheries, and 60 pedlars; only four Chinamen own real estate in the The petition states that not only do the Chinese monopolise labor, but they send almost every dollar out of the country; that they exclude a good class of immigrants, violate the Sabbath, pay only a small portion of their share of taxation, contribute to no charitable institutions, and the sum of their iniquities is made up by their acquiescence In a diet of rats and mice.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5708, 16 July 1879, Page 3
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139Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5708, 16 July 1879, Page 3
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