MYSTERIOUS.
A JUNK IN NORTH QUEENSLAND. (bT TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COP YIiIGUT.) Brisbane, October 10. A steamer, which has arrived from Thursday Island, reports that a Chinese junk, of about 200 tons, was seen lying in Newcastle Bay (a little south of Cape York, on the North Queensland coast). A Customs lugger was dispatchcd to investigate the movements of the mysterious stranger;
There have been many stories of prohibited Asiatics landing at various parts of the unpeopled coast of the Northern Territory and North Queensland, and thus evading the Federal immigration laws. But Mr. Stretton, subcollector of Customs at Palmerston, in common with many old Territorians, ridicules the idea of Chinese gaining admission by landing on unpeopled parts of tbo coast, for the simple reason that they would be unable to pass tho cordon of aborigines. "Tho black-follow, wild and semi-civilised, harbours a ferooious antipathy for the' Chinese','' and the life of Celestials landing in tho country ,of any tribe in the Territory wMd-'SkCWWijrortß "if lfibment'spurchase."
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 325, 12 October 1908, Page 7
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165MYSTERIOUS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 325, 12 October 1908, Page 7
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