THE CHINESE QUESTION. MEMORANDUM FROM THE CHINESE AMBASSADOR.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 248, 21 March 1888, Page 7

THE CHINESE QUESTION. MEMORANDUM FROM THE CHINESE AMBASSADOR.

! Melbourne, March IX | Lord Knutsford, Secretary of State for the Colonies, sends the memorandum of the Chinese Ambassador in London, protesting against exceptional legislation by the colonies in relation to the Chinese, as a circular note to all the colonial- Governments. Lord Knutsford asks that the Government of each colony shall make a report on the exceptional Chinese legislation in force in each colony, and the results with which such legislation has been attended, in order that Lord Salisbury may reply to the memorandum, which is the result of the recent visit of the Chinese Commissioner to i the colonies. The memorandum points out that the Chinese are not exceptionally treated in Crown colonies, and that afc the Straits Settlements, at Hongkong, and even iv some of the Australian colonies, the representatives of Her Majesty the Queen have borne testimony to the value of the Chinese, and to their orderly behaviour. The memorandum further protests against the exceptional treatment which the Chinese received in the Australian colonies, and asks for the elimination of any law which may be at variance with treaty obligations, and opposed to international usage.

Washington, March 15. The treaty signed by the Chinese Minister and tho Secretary of State excludes Chinese labour from ' the United States for a period of twenty years.