NEW SOUTH WALES AND THE CHINESE.
PROPOSED POLL-TAX OF £200. (by electric tklkgrapii.— copyeigiit.) Newcastle, May 2. At an influential public meeting, it was resolved to ask the Government to introduce a Bill, imposing on Chinese a polltax of £200, and a residential tax of £20. The meeting strongly protested against the relegation to the Imperial Government the right to legislate on the Chinese qnestion which was a matter purely for the colonies to consider.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2467, 3 May 1888, Page 2
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75NEW SOUTH WALES AND THE CHINESE. Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2467, 3 May 1888, Page 2
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