THE STEAMER AUSTRALIAN.
TREATMENT OF'CHINESE.
INDIGNATION AROUSED.
Received November 27, 10.28 a.m. SYDNEY, November 27. Indignation has been aroused by the treatment accorded by the authorities of Thursday Island to the shipwrecked Chinese passengers from the steamer Australian, which went ashore on Saturday night on an outlying reef near Vashon Head, situated about 115 miles from Port Darwin. European ana other passengers returned from Port Darwin to Thursday Island for transhipment to the East. The Europeans were housed at the best hotels, but the Ohinfese, including many merchants hailing from all parts of Australia and New Zealand, were compelled to go aboard a coal iyilk, which was moored off the shore.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8297, 28 November 1906, Page 5
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111THE STEAMER AUSTRALIAN. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8297, 28 November 1906, Page 5
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