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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3970, 19 September 1881, Page 2

The 'Frisco News Letter, speaking of - the Australian Colonies, says :<-" The Australian Colonies have lately kicked against Irish immigration, and have decided, in the language of an old comic song, that "No Irish need apply." . Now they are threatened with an immense influx of Chinese. At labour in these colonies is already low, the depressing effect of the.arrival of 20,000 Coolies cannot but cause much distress and a good deal of very just growling among the labouring classes. In 1864 John Bayley Darvall, then Attorney ' General of New South Wales, was instrumental in passing a bill charging each Chinaman 50 dollars before landing. This had the effect of stopping-almost entirely what was even then growing into a serious curse to the country. Only a few Chinamen, &vi those, of the better class, could afford to land, and whole ship* loads had to return without touching dry land. This good law must hare lately been repealed, and China with her teeming hordes of half starred slaves, is never .. slow to take advantage of such chance* to get rid of her surplus poor. ' . An elderly miss was beard to exclaim, while sitting at her toilet the other day: " I can bear adversity, I can encounter hardship, and withstand the change* of fickle fortuue; but, qb, to lire, and droop, and wither, like a single pink! I can't eudvre it, aud wbftt'a more, I wea't!"