THE GOVERNOR AND THE CHINESE OF OTAGO.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1619, 29 April 1879, Page 3

THE GOVERNOR AND THE CHINESE OF OTAGO.

[Press Special Wire.] Dunedin, April 28.

During his stay at Queenstown the Governor was presented with an address from the Chinese of the district. In the course of it they said:—“Sons of the Celestial country are only slightly acquainted with the English tongue; yet we have heard pleasant and favorable reports of your Excellency’s just and generous dealings with men of all races, and that you treat all races with loyal impartiality. We desire to congratulate your Excellency, and to render to you the best wishes of our hearts. Much disquiet has been ours of late by reason of the Bill against Chinese immigration j but we desire to beg from your Excellency a fair consideration of our positions, and to point out that, now we have thrown open our flowery and blessed country to the enterprising English, so also we may hope to bo permitted to make our home in the spare corners of the English colonies. We desire to convey to your Excellency the trust and confidence we have in the kindness and justice with which you will regard our interests.” His Excellency is reported to have replied that he had spent some years in China, and was therefore well acquainted with the character of their countrymen, and during his administration in this colony should favorably consider the request of their petition.