CHINESE QUESTION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1888, 7 May 1889, Page 1

CHINESE QUESTION.

London, May 1. Sir John Walshim, British Minister at Pekio, h«s failed to make any progress in hid negotiations with Ihe Chinese Government re emigration to the Australian colonies. Tte Imperial assent to thfl Exclusion Bills passed by those will b 9 withheld, pending a further attempt to arrive at a settlement with China, but the English Government is agreeable to allow the exclusion to be enforced in the meanwhile in terms of the Bills. China objects to negotiate unless the Bills are suspended pending the drawing up of a new treaty. Melbourne, May 5. The British Government have intimated to the Government of Victoria that a protest has been received from the Chinese authorities against the colonial ■ measure restricting the emigration of Chinese. Mr Gillies states that the objections made by China to the proposed colonial legislation on the subject are not so serious as it was at first anticipated that they would be, and believes that they will be overcome by the concentrated potion of the eolonies. Sydney, May 5. In the course of an interview yesterday, Mr Quong Tart, the well-known Chinese merchant, said that returned Chinese emigrants suffered destitution, and he appealed to their countrymen for sympathy and assistance, le said, in referring to his visit to China, that the stories of imprisonment of ships carrying Chinese to Sydney hal inflamed the popular anger of all Chinamen, and this sentiment was smouldering, and was ready to break out at any moment in a manner uupleasant to English residents, particularly those in the employ of the Chinese Government. Mr Quong Tert asserts that had it not been for the Mandarins there would be something approaching su open revolt in China, but those gentlemen had kept tbo people quiet by Btating that the English Government would suppress the policy of the colonial Governments regarding the Chinese.