WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening news, The morning news and The Echo. FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1879,

Auckland Star, Volume IX, Issue 2714, 3 January 1879, Page 2

WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening news, The morning news and The Echo.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1879,

For the cause that acks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the eood that we can do.

The tribe of Gilzai v. Gildji, numbering 3,000,000, who support Yakoob Khan as Ameer of Afghanistan, boasts of direct descent from the Ten Tribes of Israel, and the evidence in the archives of St. Peters burgh on this point is said to be irrefragable. Here is a nut to crack for Mr Kees, and others of that ilk who want to persuade us that we are of a verity the peculiar people. If Yakoob is Afghan for. Jacob, then of course the connection between the Ameer and tho ancient Hebrews is as clear as mud, and Mr Kees' theory fallsto pieces. Yakoob Khan has always been a warm friend of the British, and an opponent of the Knssicina.

' The anU-CMneso strike has been adjusted. ' A special cubic from Sydney conveys the intelligence that the A.S.N. Company hns ■ conceded the demands of the men on strike, which happily prohibit the employment of more • than a limited number of Chinese in tho Company's vessels running in Australian waters and the further introduction of Chinese by the same moan?'. The struggle has been marked by great determination ov both sides, but the weight of public sympathy was, as English sympathy generally is, on the side of the weaker. As the strike continued, and the strain was exerted, the men wore aided by support from new l;<bour combinations, sueb. as the coal miners at Newcastle and Brisbane. The fact that the working men of other colonies thought it necessary to make common cause with the seamen of Sydney, ; shews how deep-seated was the hostility to

Chinese immigration. Though the strike has done some harm, by temporarily disorganising trade, it has effected permanent good by forcing the Chinese question upon the attention of the Government and the Legislature. ' ' '