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Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 389, 8 January 1879, Page 4

The Wellington Chronicle says :—The Committee on the Chinese question sitting at Washington, recently adopted sections as foilo'.vs : Aliens not eligible to citizenship cannot sue or bo sued. A lawyer appearing for or against them loses his license. They shall have no business licenses. No corporation employing them can have a license. Aliens are forbidden to buy or lease property. Also a section declaring that I’oieigners ineligible to dtize: ’ * 1 1 J ’ *■ 1 -- J immigration by all means, provide for their exclusion from the State, and levy a tax on them ; provide fines for those who get them here, and give powers to cities to exclude them. Also, a section prohibiting public officials from employing them, and designating dismissal from office as the penalty. Also disfranchising citizens who employ them. All were carried on a simple majority, and will probably not meet with approval of the Convention. The IVlannwatu Herald of the 24th December says : —Wo believe the work of surveying the lino Wellington-Foxton has already begun, and that an addition to the survey staff has. arrived from Taranaki, for the purpose of expediting the wprk. It is very probable a “ trial line,” will also be run out from the Palmerston end. Under the head of <£ Good News,” the Sun says Canon Fana>’s theory that the dogma of eternal punishment was all moonshine and bunkum seems' to be universally affirmed as correct. Out of fifteen* eminent divines to whom it was referred— Irish, Scotch and English—nil but two (signified it to he their firm belief that hell had no backbone, but was simply a pleasurable figure of speech. the ilatnrc shall discourage their