THE CHINESE QUESTION.
Homo-Kong; May 12.
The Chamber of Commerce has protected against the action of the Australian Governments in excluding the Chinese, affirming that such action imperils tha British, interests in China, and will alienate the sympathies of that country from England., •*; London, May 14
The Shanghai correspondent of the Standard telegraphs that the English residents in, China deprecate the. action of the Australian Governments in exeluding Chinese.
Stdnit, Hay 15 Cardinal Moran, In the bourse of an Interview, said the colonies; were acting in an arbitrary and unchristian spirit in prohibiting the Chinese from landing. He admitted that formerly he had help a different opinion, but after careful;consideration Jhs had seen’,',good cause to change ; his views. A great deaj ef the agitation, he declared, was fictitious, and got up by loafers and others too laxy to work.
A rule riin for a writ of ffabeat Ctrpu* hat been granted on behalf of the passengers of the Afghan end Tsinan, who were detained here. An application to make the rule absolute will be made on Thursday. Sir Henry Parke* has received a cablegram from Lord Knutsford, asking under a hat law the Chinese passengers were debarred from landing here, and has replied that the Government determined at all hazards to prerent the Chinese landing unless they are naturalised subjects, in the House to-day the Premier gave notice of a Bill to amend the Chinese Immigration Restriction Act, and for the sospen- ■ sion of the Standing Orders to allow of the Bill being passed through all its stages in one day. Later. The Chinese Bill to be introduced provides against an influx of Chinese, and indemnifies the Government’ and Executive for all action taken in connection with the Chiiese since the Ist May. The steamer Guthria has anived with 163 Chinese. She has been quarantined. Memowhhi, May 15. The captain of,, the Albany has been fined £SO for bringing his vessel with Chinese passengers alongside the wharf in defiance of the orders of the authorities,
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1738, 17 May 1888, Page 1
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