AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
[Reuter's Special to Star.]
Sydney, Yesterday. The Intercolonial Conference meet again to-day; the Hon. Thomas Dick being present as the representative of New Zealand. - The question of the influx of Chinese was under consideration for 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.
Later.
A memorial to the Home Government, which is to be prepared by the committee of the International Conference, will make representations in favor of a reversal of the action of the Government of Western Australia in the original scheme for the introduction of Chinese at the public expense, which is considered prejudicial to all the colonies. The resolution has special reference to the Western Australian scheme, which has- been recently gazetted. The steamship Collaroy, belonging to the Newcastle S. S. Co., and a regular trader between Newcastle and Sydney, has run ashore to the northward of the Manly beach, on the coast near Sydney. She is expected to gat off again -soon.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 82, 22 January 1881, Page 2
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198AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 82, 22 January 1881, Page 2
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