COLONIAL NEWS.
HOSTILE TO THE CHINESE. Sydney, April 25. The miners employed in the Newcastle collieries have made arrangements for holding a mass meeting for the purpose of considering the Chinese immigration, and the employment of Chinese as labourers in the coal mines. SHIPPING. Sydney, April 2f>. ' Arrived : The Union Co.'s steamship Ringaroonia, from Russell. ; WALKING MATCH. Adelaide, April 25. : A six days' pedestrian tournament was finished' here on Saturday night. Edwards walked the greatest distance, 451 miles, Swan, of New Zealand, coming next, with 423 mile 3. Both men! did their distances easily. THE CHINESE INVASION. Sydney, April 25. The Union Company's steamship Hero, which left here on Saturday last for New Zealand, took 3SO Chinese. - The steamer. Brisbane, which was quarantined at Cooktqwn for smallpox, is now on her way here with 350 Chinese::' v' . : '■'. .'' ■" .. "" " :
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6065, 26 April 1881, Page 5
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