The Chinese Question.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 273, 16 June 1888, Page 4

The Chinese Question.

Svdnkv, Juno 11. The Chinese in the different colonies are uniting together in memorialising the Conference which is about to moot here on the subject of the hardships imposed upon them by adverse legislation.

S\ dnky, Juno 12. FiKTV-lCKJirr Chinese are to bo returned to Hongkong by the steamer Changshai. These have held a meeting, at which great excitement prewired. Quong Tart, the Chinese merchant, who has acted as mediator throughout the piesent diiliculty, is of opinion that there will be trouble, and pu^ibly loss of life, on the voyage backto Hongkong.

S\ dm. 1 ! , .Juno L 2. The CiiinoM 1 passengers detained on board the (Munushu made a desperate attempt to obtain a landing this aftoiiioou. Aftoi a short btiu<:gie, howover, the police succeeded in quelling the disturbance.

Lo\iMi\, Juno 12. The "Times' 1 this morning in an article on the Chinese question, s 4 iy.s the leeent enactment of the Legislating of .South AVnles is absolutely ineoni})atii>le Avilh the treaties ol Nankin ami Pelvin . hut wliiht this is so, Mi inland is prepaied to aid the colonists to the la^t, point eonsi>tenL with national hononi and e<tuity.

tt\ i»m ■s , .lunc 12. Tiil Chinese Confeience was opened to d,i), imt the piess was not admitted. Sir Henry Paikes was chosen pie-ddem Mr Playford, Premier of South Australia, gave noiice of a sciies ot jevolutions which he thought would eompieheml all the busine-.^. It is e\pected lhat the Confetence w ill conclude its >ittiii>'^ l»y rimibday. The suL^otionfi calik<i muiio d.i) •> siiue 1)) Loid Knutsford to the Pieinicr of South Au-tialia weieiead at tho ronffiem-e to Cm\ . The) are ueneially <li^jij»|>io% ed, as not hem '4 wuithv ot coiKsideiiition The most muteiial i.oint is tint the (okmio shoulil make their le^i-lation imain^t Ctiine>e of a .-imihir cltatactei to that which might ho made to 'i|>i>l\ to subjects of (Jerniany, I'Vancc, oi any other ioieign nation visiting the colonies. Mr V\u\ fo»d\ le.-oUitioiiP, of whicii notito was given to-d.i)-, indicate the nece^ity of ,i stnngent but ii\odcr i .tte mea-uic iv lestiicL the immigiution of Chinese. It has been suggested l )) the Soiah Austialian delegate^, as a basis of iuture discussion, lhat a poll tax of .00 -hould be imposed, and that the tonnaure allow aiuu should lie mci eased to one Chinese for every two handled ton-.

S\ i>\ \\ , June 12 The T.isiruni.w (lovounncnt Mig,,i>ted tliat the question of tnmspoitalion of !''[onch c»iivi(ts ho <li^cuw<l ;il the ( 'hinu-e (.'oiifeieiice. 'Hie su<;<i;u«sUoii will rahlod to the other colonie-, )mt 'Queensland fa vouis the Conteienee dealing exelu-ively with the matter ot the Cliinc^c influx.

S\ i>m i , Judo ~\o The rca.son advanced 101 the exclusion of the pre^ fiom the ( 'onfeiem on the (.'hine>e Ouoliuii i\ that tho \ lctoiian deie-i/at'^ me anxiou*. to get hack to Molhomne w ithout dehi) : and H the piesi had heen admitted H-f .^pcechei would ha\e heen in.ule, and the (.Vnfi'icm c would have heel' undul\ niotiactcd Jloth the " lleiald and " Teleuiaph " condemn (ho-oiu^e ['indued, which they alicge \\ Hi h.u c Uie ellect oi cojiiplolely dc->-{io)ui<j; the influence and power of the Coiueiencc Mr l\^ch, the 'IVinanian delegate, is s.ated to he willing to (oojMMate v/itli tin; lepre^ontati\"-, of tlie otliei colomeh in w r hate\ei coin so may he agreed Uj>on ; hut mj tar as Tasmania is concerned mitlici" lo^ti iciiv/ 1 )( ui'-lation i.j (jiiite unnece^^at y. H the I onfeiejice shoul'i decide i hat joint leui\l<if ion is desiiahle the 'rasmiiiiiaii Paiiiameut may :u»reo tn ]>,ioh a nioi c ic-iti ictive measuie ; hut ?>h Kyicli considcis the acton of the Impel ml (iovemment to liave heen perfectly eoi lect, and lie sees no leason foi complaint. i\lr I^uuciiu Uillies (\'iet-iii l i) is of opinion that the influx of Chinese to the colonies should he lesiiiuted in some wi\y, hut thinks that the diplomatic influence of England would ed'ect. this more satisfactorily than diaslii; legislation on the purl of the colonies.

ti\ i>\)A', June 13 The r.s. Wnihora has left hero direct for Wellington wifh twelve Chinese pabsenvcoih. The .s.s. (Jutlnio lias s:iilc<], with NT) loturnetl (Ilnnoso }):is < suii^crs, on her w.iy hack to China.

J laid indeed arc the Jhch of .some of the FjiiglKh w f.i king population when one ruad.s of woinen-inakeih ot quill toothpicks being paid 5d a. thousand — 1,400 reckoning aa u tiarie thousand -Is 3d a day being the maximum of her earnings, working hard fiom early morn until latesb eve. tf VVhfitaro you making such faces for?" .said Alv iYlcOildcr to ><iv Pu^o : "'-hero ain't nothing the matter with that ci^ar 1 gave you, is there?" "No, I £uoss not, Flip," replied his friend. "Do I stay here, or do L go out into the yard co die '/" Church music in New York employs not. far from 2,000 organists and vocalists, whohO annual .salaries amount to £50,000. The straw packing of exhibits from New Zealand is to bo burnt at Melbourne, so as to guard against fcho introduction of the llcfcbian 11 y.