AUSTRALIAN. THE INTERCOLONIAL CONFERENCE.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 17, 21 January 1881, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN. THE INTERCOLONIAL CONFERENCE.

THE CHINESE QUESTION. MEMORIAL TO THE HOME GOVERNMENT. A STEAMER ASHORE. [redter'b telegrams.] Stdnet, 20th January.

The Intercolonial Conference met again to-day, the Hon. Thomas Dick being present as representative of New Zealand. The question of the influx of Chinese was under consideration the greater part of the sitting, and a resolution was finally passed setting forth that the introduction of Chinese at the public expense in one colony was prejudicial to all the colonies. A committee was further appointed to prepare a memorial to the Home Government on the subject. The steamship Collaroy, 'belonging to the Newcastle Steamship Company, and a regular trader between Newcastle and Sydney, has run ashore to the northward of Manly Beach, on the coast, near Sydney. She is expected to get off again soon. ' ' Sailed — Union Company's s.s. Rotorua, for Auckland. Later. The memorial to the Home Government, which is to be prepared by the special mw* mittee appointed at to-day's sitting oTthe Intercolonial Conference, will make representations in favor of the reversal of the action of the Government in Western Australia in originating a schema for Chinese immigration ; and the resolution passed by the Conference, that the introduction of Chinese at the public expense in one colony is prejudicial to all the colonies, has special reference to the Western Australian schema, as recently gazetted.