CABLEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 912, 26 January 1881, Page 5

CABLEGRAMS.

Sydney, January 24. At the Intercolonial Conference the Hon. Thos. Dick was present as the representative of New Zealand. The question of the influx of Chinese was under consideration for the greater part of the sitting, and a resolution was finally passed setting forth that the introduction of Chinese at the public expense in one Colony was prejudicial to all the ColoniesA Committee was appointed to prepare a memorial to the Home Government on the subject. The memorial to the Home Government which is to be prepared by a special Committee appointed at to-day’s sitting of the Intercolonial Conference, will make representations in favor of the reversal of ths action of the Government in Western Australia in originating a scheme for Chinese immigration. The resolution passed at the Conference, that the introduction of Chinese at the public expense in one Colony is prejudicial to all the Colonies, has special reference to the Western Australian scheme as recently gazetted. The steamship Collaroy, belonging to the Newcastle Steamship Company, and a regular trader between Newcastle and Sydney, has run ashore to the northward of Manly Beach, on the coast near Sydney. She is expected to get off again soon.