THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1881.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3846, 27 April 1881, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1881.

Eecent cablegrams from Australia ccnvey the intelligence that Chinese immigration in large numbers has set in towards tbe Australasian Group. Daring the past month over one thousand Celestials have set foot in the colonies, and there is every reason to fear that large numbers are daily packing up their celestial traps in Canton and Hongkong, and preparing for the invasion of the fair lands of the south. A little less than two years ago the people of this colony were up in arms about the Chineae question. Mass meetings were held in various centres of population, and the Legislature admitted that it. was indeairable- that the colony should be flooded ;by 'Mongolian immigrants. Nothing however, was done to restrict the evil, and it is quite possible before legislation is .brought to bear that a thousand or two Chinamen will be landed on our shores, affording a wonderful pDwer to j -capital 'in . its struggle with labor. We submit that the people of the colony should demand that the first measures of the approaching session should have in view the restriction of Chinese immigration. In this colony we have cot yet felt the dire! effects of the existence in our midst of a race whose peculiar civilisation is no lodger plastic, but has long since been crystallised into .the perfect form of its system. But let us Hum to the fair colonies of Australia, to California, to Honolulu, and elsewhere, and there we can witness the evil effects of the mixing of non-assimilative races. As an inferior

race, accepting none of the virtues of the superior, the presence of the Chinese is degrading and compromising to the multitude, and with the success of one the other must depart.