THE GOVERNMENT PROPOSE ADDITIONAL RESTRICTIONS.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 263, 12 May 1888, Page 4

THE GOVERNMENT PROPOSE ADDITIONAL RESTRICTION S.

AYlllim.ton, May 10. Tin. (l(n eminent will gazette a proclama. 10-da}, declining tlic porU of China mieeled, anil "will legislate to provide that '■tuunew shall only brm^ one Chinaman ior each hundred instead ot each ten tons, this bcin^ thu \ ictonan 1 emulation. They "will aKo stop pa^sefa and mcieabe the poll tax.

TliE KE AIsAU AT DUNEDIK Dijnldin, May 8. The denic fog Avhich prevailed to-day ilcla) cd Lho Te Anaus aim al. She reached l*oi t Clialmcra at 2 o'clock, bat it was 5 bcfoie bbc ai rived at Dunedin. Some 200 or 300 persons, mostly young men, with a spi inkling ot the lanikin class, were on the wharf. No attempt A\a& made to land the Chinese pas.sengerb, and the officers of the % esbel ] efiiL-ed to give any information whatever as, to their movements. It is expected that they will be put a&hore during the night.

THE MONGOLIANS LANDED. Du>edi>, May 9.

The Chinee pasten^eis by &>. Te Anau ior Dunedin u ere landed at bcvcn thi& morning.

AXTI - CHINESE MEETING AT IXVERCAUGILL. IwJvKcakuill, May 9 It k stutcd that as a lesult of the de pies^ion, the number of Europeans on the Round Hill goldtield is iuci eating, and that the Chinese miners are jealous of their intrusion. Mo*t of the new-comers aic making* wages, and will do 1 better when the slugo channel is completed. A imal meeting 1 in connection with the Chinese w*as held near the post oflieelasbnighb. The Vigilance Committee stated that abouc CIO had been spent in lailway fares and 1 oi» hfc shillings foi advertisingand telegrams. The balance m hand, t'l ss. od,Avas voted to city band who played at railway station and through tow non Monday morning-. Oneof the speakers denouncedthe C ovemmentf or their apathy, and said they wore cowai'dlj, contemptible, and should be ignominously kicked out ot olhce. The- Rev. Mr Stalto' (l'rchliyteiian) urged that the Chinamen wcic quiet, and circulated money by purchasing pig* ard poultry from ttic taimer. They were nob heie in large numbers, and it "wai time enough to take action when their piesence became an evil. It the Chinese weic ill-tieated here they might massacre the Europeans in China. \\ c should follow the golden rule, and do unto others as we would they should do unto u.^. The rev. gentleman's lemaikb ueie not well received, one speaker saying that it the Chinese killed the Europeans he hoped theic would not be a Chinaman left alone in New Zealand forty-eight hours alter the leccipt of the news