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Evening Star, Volume 8505, Issue 8505, 2 May 1891, Page 4

The Victorian Parliament will assuredly take the initiative in enacting repressive legislation directed against _ Afghan and Indian immigration, if the Indian authorities do not take some action. The Asiatic pedlars are voted more than a nuisance in conntry and sparsely populated districts, aud the fear of them is thus voiced by the ‘ Leaderlt is thoroughly well known both to the police and the public that solitary women in country districts are frequently frightened into making purchases by these dark-skinned and impudent hucksters, who are perfectly well aware that by impudent importunity they can most frequently induce an unprotected woman to my them off. The Chinaman, whom we so vigorously restrict, is, with all his failings, quite free from this highly objectionable feature; bnt it would appear that there is no power existent which can keep the Afghan, Pathan, and Hindoo swarms out of the colony. The Indian Government have been appealed to, and reply that they are powerless to keep back the invading flood, apd that all they can do is to publish at the peaports whence the Asiatic immigranta-oomc^hefact that-Aus-tralia and New Zealand do not pant them.” True lovers are few, but not very far between.