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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3336, 1 September 1879, Page 3

, The following is eu extract from a tetter received by Mr Swanson from Mr R. L. Creighton:-^"Referring, to the Chinese question, Mr Creinhton says :— I have simply to say that I have examined it minutely and dispassionately. I saw it illustrated industrially, socially, morally, and intellectually—and I can conceive no greater curse to any Anglo-Saxon community than a swarm of Chinese coolies. It is worse than a dry rot. You cannot conceive of anything so utterly destructive of our civilization, methods, and results. There are more adult male Chinese in California than there are American citizens on the great Register of the State, and they are coming at the rate of 1,200 to 2,000 a month, while white immigration has stopped. That means a rapid absorption of the Coast by the Chinese, who preserre their own customs, observe their own laws, practice their own idolatrous rites, and hare fifty per cent more felons in prison, in proportion to population, that any other race. This is not a pleasant state of things to contemplate. Bleep it out of New Zealand." <^Mr Creighton is well known in Auckland as a man of great ability, of keen observation and his opinions therefore carry Tery great weight.