THE CHINESE QUESTION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2448, 20 March 1888, Page 2

THE CHINESE QUESTION.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEttRAVII. —COPYRIGHT.)

Melbourne, March 17. Loed Knutskokd, Secretary of State for the Colonies, sends the memorandum of the Chinese Ambassador in London, protesting against exceptional legislation by the colonics in relation to the Chinese, as a circular note to all the colonial Governments. Lord Knutsford asks that the Governments of eaoh colony shall make a report on the exceptional Chinese legislation _ ii> force in each colony, and the results with which such legislation has been attenabd, in order that Lord Salisbury may reply to the memorandum, which is the result of the recent visit of the Chinese Commissioner to the colonies. The memorandum points out that the Chinese are not exceptionally treated in Crown colonies, and that at the Straits Settlements, at Hongkong, and even in some of the Australian colonies, tjje representatives of Her Majesty the Queen have borne testimony to the value of the Chinese, and to their orderly behaviour. The memorandum further protests against the exceptional treatment which the Chinese receive in the Australian colonics, and asks for the elimination of anv l&w whioh may he at variance with treaty obligations, and opposed to international usage. Washington, March 15. The treaty signed by the Chinese Minister and the Secretary of State excludes Chinese labour from the United States for a period of twenty years.