NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2900, 16 May 1888, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

THE CHINESE! QUESTION.

Hong Kong, May 12. The Chamber of Commerce has protested against tho action of the Australian Governments in excluding the Chinese, affirming that such action imperils the British interests in China and will alienate the sympathies of of that country from England. London, May 14. Tho Shanghai correspondent of the Standard telegraphs that the English residents in China deprecate tho action of the Australian Governments in excluding Chinese. AUSTRALIAN, ' Melbourne, May 14. A great property boom has set in here and during the last three days 'transactions covering, £3,000,000 sterling are reported. Sydney, May 14. During the past few days several 'cases of infanticide have occurred, but no arrests have yet been made. Sydney, May 15. The International-Temperance Congress opened yesterday, Mr Alfred Stephens presiding. , / The Government are willing to support Captain Whitney's cartridge factory by purchasing ammunition from him conditionally on the quality being good and the price reasonable. Adelaide, May 15. Parliament will meet on the 81st inst.

Sir Henry Ayres and Mr Warren have been elected to the Legislative Council as representatives for the North East District.

A large number of spurious sover: eigns are in circulation here.

Sydney, May 17. Cardinal Moran, in the course of an interview, said the colonies were acting in an arbitrary and unchristian spirit in prohibiting Chinese from landing. He admitted that formerly he had lisld a'"different opinion, but after careful consideration he had seen good cause to change his views. A great deal of the agitation, he said, was fictitious, and got up by loafers and others, who were too lazy to work.

Sir George Grey in an address given at Auckland last night staled he was going to Wellington with the firm determination to prevent an influx of Chinese.